kapnomancy

A variant spelling of capnomancy. Arising from a variant transliteration of the ancient Greek letter kappa. Not recorded in OED or other dictionaries.

1852 Mackay Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions 252: Kapnomancy, by smoke. [citing Hone citing Gaule]

1863 William Smith Dict. of the Bible i. 442/2: The other kind of divination was artificial (technike), and probably originated in an honest conviction that external nature sympathised with and frequently indicated the condition and prospects of mankind... When once this feeling was established the supposed manifestations were infinitely multiplied, and hence the numberless forms of imposture or ignorance called kapnomancy, pyromancy, arithmomancy, libanomancy, botanomancy, kephalomancy, &astc. of which there are abundant accounts...


katoptromancy

A variant spelling of catoptromancy. Arising from a variant transliteration of the ancient Greek letter kappa. Not recorded in OED or other dictionaries.

1852 Mackay Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions 252: Katoptromancy, by looking-glasses. [citing Hone, citing Gaule]

1913 Halliday Greek Div. viii. 150: The most important and best known type of lekanomancy is, or course, divination by the reflection in a bowl of water, ink, or fluid of some kind. Many instruments may be used; divination by a mirror (katoptromancy) and crystal-gazing are only variants of the same superstition.


kephalomancy

A variant spelling of cephalomancy. Arising from a variant transliteration of the ancient Greek letter kappa. Not recorded in OED or other dictionaries.

1863 William Smith Dict. of the Bible i. 442/2: The other kind of divination was artificial (technike), and probably originated in an honest conviction that external nature sympathised with and frequently indicated the condition and prospects of mankind... When once this feeling was established the supposed manifestations were infinitely multiplied, and hence the numberless forms of imposture or ignorance called kapnomancy, pyromancy, arithmomancy, libanomancy, botanomancy, kephalomancy, &astc. of which there are abundant accounts...

1973 K. Ellis Prediction and Prophecy iii. 41: Kephalomancy. Divination by the crackling of a donkey's head when burnt.

1986 F. Gettings Encyc. Occult


kephalonomancy

A variant spelling of cephaleonomancy. Arising from a variant transliteration of the ancient Greek letter kappa. Not recorded in OED or other dictionaries.

1920 L. Spence Encyc. Occult 243/1: Kephalonomancy: A method of divination which is practised by making divers signs on the baked head of an ass. It was familiar to the Germans and the Lombards substituted for it the head of a goat. The ancients placed lighted carbon on an ass's head, and pronounced the names of those who were suspected of any crime. If a crackling coincided with the utterance of a name, the latter was taken as being that of the guilty person.


[keptolomancy]

A mistake for cephalomancy appearing in Cassell's Encyc. Dict. 1909. Under the entry for botanomancy a citation is given quoting William Smith's Dict. of the Bible i. 442. The actual passage has 'kephalomancy'.

kledonomancy

A variant spelling of cledonomancy. Arising from a variant transliteration of the ancient Greek letter kappa. Not recorded in OED or other dictionaries.

1913 Halliday Greek Div. x. 229: One of the most important of the methods of divination of the kleromantic order is kledonomancy. We have earlier had occasion to notice the importance which attaches to the spoken word. Kledonomancy is originally nothing more than the acceptance of the fatal word or of the spoken omen.


kleidomancy

A variant spelling of cleidomancy. Arising from a variant transliteration of the ancient Greek letter kappa. Not recorded in OED or other dictionaries.

1973 Gibson Complete Illust. Bk Div. &ast Prophecy (1989) 320: KLEIDOMANCY: The same as cleidomancy.


kleromancy

A variant spelling of cleromancy. Arising from a variant transliteration of the ancient Greek letter kappa. Not recorded in OED or other dictionaries.

1853 Mackay Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions 252: Kleromancy, by lots. [citing Hone citing Gaule]

1913 Halliday Greek Div. x. 205: kleromancy [chapter heading] The appeal in cases of doubt or uncertainty to the fall of the lot is familiar in modern life.


knissomancy

Mackay's term for Gaule's libanomancy, i.e. divination by the burning of incense.

From ancient Greek knissa the fatty smoke of a burnt sacrifice, the smell of a victim.

This word was coined by Mackay who apparently was not content with the original spelling of Gaule's list. For the most part Mackay's changes were of a essentially cosmetic nature, merely altering a c to a where the word element originally had a Greek kappa, etc. However, in this instance he substituted a completely different Greek word. Why this was done is a mystery, especially since Gaule's original term, libanomancy, both utilises a Greek word, libanos incense, and is even represented in the ancient Greek compound libanomantis an interpreter of incense smoke.
Actually, there was, as far as we know, no ancient Greek *knissomanteia, *knissomantis, etc.

This word has been copied by later amateur lexicographers into their popular-consumption books. It is not recorded by the OED, or any other standard English dictionaries.

Citations

1853 Mackay Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions 252: Knissomancy, by the burning of incense. [purportedly citing Hone (citing Gaule)]

1974 Mrs. Byrne's Dict.: knissomancy..fortunetelling by incense-burning.

1986 P. Hellweg Insomniac's Dict. x. 81: Knissomancy Incense burning.

1993 McCormack Q&astA 70: KNISSOMANCY - incense burning.


koskinomancy

A variant spelling of coscinomancy. Arising from a variant transliteration of the ancient Greek letter kappa. Not recorded in OED or other dictionaries.

1852 Mackay Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions 252: Koskinomancy, by sieves. [citing Hone citing Gaule]

1913 Halliday Greek Div. x. 219: To the same species of divinatory rites [i.e. those involving a swinging pendulum] belong the koskinomancy of Theokritos, familiar in England as the consultation of the sieve and shears, and the minor rites of axinomancy and sphondylomancy.


krithomancy

A variant spelling of crithomancy. Arising from a variant transliteration of the ancient Greek letter kappa. Not recorded in OED or other dictionaries.

1852 Mackay Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions 252: Krithomancy, by corn, or grain. [citing Hone citing Gaule]

1913 Halliday Greek Div. ix. 185: Ooskopy..libanomancy..and aleuromancy..belong to the same order of sub-rites. [footnote] Also phyllomancy, alphitomancy, krithomancy...


kypomancy

A rare word for tasseomancy.

As to the etymology, I am uncertain. There are no other modern English words beginning kypo-. Possibly it is meant to represent the Greek kypellon a goblet, cup, a derivative of kype a hole, hollow.

Not recorded in OED or other dictionaries.

1973 Collier's Encyc. x. 211/1: Kypomancy...tea leaves in a cup.