Coscinomancy in Grecian superstition, was fortune-telling by means of a sieve. When, for example,. a thief was to be detected, the sieve was suspended by a thread in the air, and a number of suspected persons named, the gods being invoked in the meantime. At. whosesoever name the sieve moved, he was held to be. the thief. SEE DIVINATION.
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The Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. James Strong and John McClintock; Haper and Brothers; NY; 1880.
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