Seherezada

The origin of this practice is attributed to the Persians. There are several ways:

1. When after some invocations and magical ceremonies is seen on the water are written the names of persons or things you want to know, these names will be written on the back.

2. Use a pot filled with water and a ring suspended by a thread and hit him several times side.

3. Discard successively at short intervals, three pebbles in a quiet and water status. Circles that form the surface and points of intersection are clues to predict.

4. Examine closely the movements of sea waves and bustle. Sicilians were dedicated to the predilection of this superstition. Some have even used the Oriental Christians to baptize every year the sea, as a living being and with reason.

5. Predictions can be obtained from water color and figures that can be shaped to its surface. This has happened after Varron's opinion, as Rome was able to know the solution to get out of war with Mithridate. Some rivers and wells were considered more suitable than others in antiquity for such operations

6. All through such a practice ancient Germans clarify their suspicions about the infidelity of women: they threw into the Rhine newborn children, if swimming means that are legitimate and if the bottom means that they are bastards.

7. Fill a cup with water and, after pronounce certain words, or gave notice if boiling water is out of the cup.

8. Put water into a glass or crystal bowl, then add a drop of oil, and the man imagining that sees in the water as in a mirror, what he want to know.