Hagiomancy

Hagiomancy
La Santa Muerte (Folk Catholicism), Personification, Goddess and Patron Saint of Death
Power/Ability to:	Gain insight into a question or situation using saints and saint objects.

The ability to gain insight into a question or situation using saints as a conduit. Sub-power of Divine Magic and Mysticism. Variation of Divination.

Also Called

• Saint Divination
• Saint Reading/Sight

Capabilities

The user can employ a method of reading the future, the present and the past and/or provide help to a problem at hand by using saints and saintly objects as a focus, like saint statues. The user can use those sources as a way to see visions or insights of time.

Applications

• Divination
  • Precognition
  • Retrocognition
  • Syncognition
• Lightside View
• Psychometry

Associations

• Angelomancy
• Divine Force Manipulation
• Magic
  • Dark Arts (varies on which saint and what the purpose is for)
  • Mysticism
  • White Arts
• Patron Saint

Limitations

• May require time and concentration to make a vision.
• Predictions are seldom set in stone, thus not every vision will come to pass or may do so in unexpected ways.
• Depending on the belief or verse use of saints in prophetic rites may invoke the wrath of a Supreme Being/Higher Power.

Known User

Folklore/Mythology

• Catholic Witches (Esoteric Catholicism)
• Folk Saint Practitioners (Folk Catholicism); varies.