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 other use was more relegated, since the term clairvoyance is used to refer to the question of divination.
The word spell has its origin in latin, coming from Se Tortis (luck and Legis (reading), which refers to the art of reading the signals that occur before a certain event, although it mainly involves divination, 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 of 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 they have found within their reach, 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 which, in the absence of the scientific method in very remote times, were certainly complex and impossible.
