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The term spell is popularly used to refer to two questions. On the one hand, to that divination that is carried out through magical means and on the other hand to the consummate fact of a spell, spell or charm.

Meanwhile, these days, the term is mostly used as a synonym of the term spell and the another use was more relegated, since to refer to the question of divination the term is used clairvoyance.

The word spell has its origin in latin, coming from Se Tortis (luck and Legis (reading), which refers to art to read the signals that occur before a certain event, although it involves divination, mainly, the spell proposes to interpret the events that will occur in the future through those signals that are manifested in our present.

The spell includes all the mancias, that is, the fortune telling or tarot (deduction through the use of cards or any other similar game), the palmistry (interpretation through palm reading), caffeine (divination by means of the coffee grounds or other infusions), the

cleromancy (interpreted by beans, shells), bibliomancy (random selection of the passage from a book, interpreting the result according to a question), necromancy (knowledge of situations by the invocation of the spirits of the dead) and the aeromancy (observation atmospheric phenomena).

Without exception, all the cultures and peoples that have formed and are part of our planet have practiced the spell through the various methods that have found their scope, from the simplest and most popular, to the most sophisticated.

It is believed that one of the causes of the birth of the spell was the need to interpret causal relationships, which were not evident per se and that in the absence of the spell scientific method in ancient times, they were certainly complex and impossible.

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