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from https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/AN/AN10_69.html and https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/AN/AN10_70.html and
Furthurance on Wrong Livelihood
- reading marks on the limbs (ie. palmistry)
- reading omens and signs
- interpreting celestial evens (falling stars, comets, etc.)
- interpreting dreams
- reading marks on the body (ie. phrenology)
- reading marks on cloth gnawed by mice
- offering fire oblations, oblations from a ladle, oblations of husks, rice powder, rice grains, ghee, and oil
- offering oblations from the mouth
- offering blood sacrifices
- making predictions based on the fingertips
- geomancy
- laying demons in a cemetery
- placing spells on spirits
- reciting house-protection charms
- snake charming, poison lore, scorpion lore, rat lore, bird lore, crow lore etc.
- fortune telling based on visions
- giving protective charms
- interpreting the calls of birds and animals
- determining lucky and unlucky gems, garments, staffs, swords, spears, arrows, bows, and other weapons;
- [determining lucky and unlucky] women, boys, girls, male slaves, female slaves;
- [determining lucky and unlucky] elephants, horses, buffaloes, bulls, cows, goats, rams, fowl, quails, lizards, long-eared rodents, tortoises, and other animals.
- [forecasting] the rulers will march forth
- [forecasting] the rulers will march forth and return
- [forecasting] our rulers will attack, and their rulers will retreat
- [forecasting] there will be triumph for our rulers and defeat for their rulers
- [forecasting] there will be triumph for their rulers and defeat for our rulers
- [forecasting] thus there will be triumph, thus there will be defeat
- [forecasting] there will be a lunar eclipse
- [forecasting] there will be a solar eclipse
- [forecasting] there will be an occultation of an asterism
- [forecasting] the sun and moon will go their normal corses
- [forecasting] the sun and moon will go astray
- [forecasting] the asterisms will go their normal courses
- [forecasting] the asterisms will go astray
- [forecasting] there will be a meteor shower
- [forecasting] there will be a darkening of the sky
- [forecasting] there will be an earthquake
- [forecasting] there will be thunder coming from a clear sky
- [forecasting] there will be a rising, a setting, a darkening, a brightening of the sun, moon, and asterisms
- [forecasting] such will be the result of a lunar eclipse… the rising, setting, darkening, brightening of the sun, moon, and asterisms
- [forecasting] there will be abundant rain; there will be drought
- [forecasting] there will be plenty; there will be famine
- [forecasting] there will be rest and security; there will be danger
- [forecasting] there will be disease; there will be freedom from disease
- or they earn their living by counting, accounting, calculation, composing poetry, or teaching hedonistic arts and doctrines
- calculating auspicious dates for marriages, betrothals, divorces;
- for collecting debts or making investments and loans;
- for being attractive or unattractive; curing women who have undergone miscarriages or abortions;
- reciting spells to bind a man’s tongue, to paralyze his jaws, to make him lose control over his hands, or to bring on deafness;
- getting oracular answers to questions addressed to a mirror, to a young girl, or to a spirit medium;
- worshipping the sun, worshipping the Great Brahma, bringing forth flames from the mouth, invoking the goddess of luck —
- promising gifts to devas in return for favors; fulfilling such promises;
- demonology;
- teaching house-protection spells;
- inducing virility and impotence;
- consecrating sites for construction;
- giving ceremonial mouthwashes and ceremonial bathing;
- offering sacrificial fires;
- preparing emetics, purgatives, expectorants, diuretics, headache cures;
- preparing ear-oil, eye-drops, oil for treatment through the nose, collyrium, and counter-medicines;
- curing cataracts, practicing surgery, practicing as a children’s doctor, administering medicines and treatments to cure their after-effects —
from https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/DN/DN11.html