Zygomancy is an ancient art that has already been practiced by the first Greeks, Romans, Persians and many other nations and cultures. The word comes from the Greek language in which zygon means gravity and the divination manteia.
How therefore, easy to guess this is the art of divination, and specifically read the future, looking at the present and past based on weights or weight and comparing the weight of weighted objects.
One of the forms of Zygomancy was bibliomancy, but only in its original use , when it was weighed suspicious about the use of spells person and the Bible located in the nearest church . It should be noted that these were large books, completely different than today . If the weighed person had less weight than the Bible, he would be considered innocent.
A similar form was practiced in many religious denominations and consisted of weighing some holy object and a person suspected of guilt. Usually, as in bibliomancy, less weight meant innocence.
Fortune-telling was very popular among peoples living in cold regions. Chukchi native inhabitants of the Chukchi peninsula tied the body of a deceased person with a string, and the fairy or fortune- teller tried to lift it earlier by asking a question.
In case the corpse could be lifted without much problem, the answer was yes or positive depending on the question asked, whereas when the body was difficult to move, the answer was no.
Eskimo women tied a stone to the straps and twisted them asking a question to the goddess Sidne. She interpreted her answer based on the change in weight of the stone.
Sami people living in the land of northern Europe benefited from zygomancy by lifting the sacred stone representing their god. When the stone was heavier than usual, the god was angry, but if it could be lifted slightly, the god favored.
Other nations also used the zygomancy technique. The island of Samoa was inhabited by a god of war named Taema who was in a bundle of shark teeth. Before the battle, Samoans checked the weight of the pendant and, like in other nations, heavy weight meant a bad sign, and lightness heralded success.
In Nyaung -U in Burma, located on the east bank of the Ayeyarwaddy River, there is a stone that attempts to lift sick people and recover when they succeed.
In Africa in Loango there are iron hammers that are supposed to foretell a woman or have children. If a woman is able to pick it up, she can expect a child, if she cannot lift the hammer, she should not expect pregnancy soon.