Numerology is any study of the purported divine, mystical or other special relationship between a number and some coinciding observed ( or perceived ) events.

Numerology is prominent throughout Sir Thomas Browne's 1658 literary Discourse The Garden of Cyrus.

Numerology is a popular plot device in fiction.

Numerology is given great credence by many of the characters, with the Law of Fives in particular being frequently mentioned.

Numerology, as it relates to luck, is closer to an art than to a science, yet numerologists, astrologists or psychics may disagree.

The expression " the map is not the territory " first appeared in print in a paper that Alfred Korzybski gave at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1931: In Science and Sanity, Korzybski acknowledges his debt to mathematician Eric Temple Bell, whose epigram " the map is not the thing mapped " was published in Numerology.

Numerology heavily influenced Imperial Architecture, hence the use of nine in much of construction ( nine being the greatest single digit number ) and the reason why the Forbidden City in Beijing is said to have 9, 999. 9 rooms-just short of the mythical 10, 000 rooms in heaven.

Numerology and numerological divination by systems such as isopsephy were popular among early mathematicians, such as Pythagoras, but are no longer considered part of mathematics and are regarded as pseudomathematics or pseudoscience by modern scientists.

* Numerology: by numbers.

# Numerology cannot be applied to numbers in the Bible when following the Biblical rules — some individuals have attempted to apply the concept to Camping's research.

Omarr's first book was entitled Sydney Omarr's Private Course on Numerology, which he self-published and sold for $ 2. 00.

For example, in his 1997 book Numerology: Or What Pythagoras Wrought, mathematician Underwood Dudley uses the term to discuss practitioners of the Elliott wave principle of stock market analysis.

See Numerology and the Church Fathers for early Christian views.

Ruth A. Drayer's book, Numerology, The Power in Numbers ( Square One Publishers ) says that around the turn of the century ( from 1800 to 1900 A. D .) Mrs. L. Dow Balliett combined Pythagoras ' work with Biblical reference.

Then on Oct 23, 1972, Balliett's student, Dr. Juno Jordan, changed Numerology further and helped it to become the system known today under the title " Pythagorean ", although Pythagoras himself had nothing to do with the system.

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Numerology: Or, What Pythagoras Wrought.

* Drayer, R. A. ( 2002 ) Numerology, The Power in Numbers, A Right & Left Brain Approach.

* Kuei Ku-tzu, Inaugurator of Numerology and Geomancer.

More recently, the mathematician Underwood Dudley has written a series of books on mathematical cranks, including The Trisectors, Mathematical Cranks, and Numerology: Or, What Pythagoras Wrought.

* Santa Claus also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas and simply " Santa ", is a figure with legendary, mythical, historical and folkloric origins who, in many western cultures, is said to bring gifts to the homes of the good children during the late evening and overnight hours of Christmas Eve, December 24.

A folkloric note about caña quemada: until June 21 it is traditional to drink caña quemada with ruda macho ( a variant of common rue ), it is supposed that this mixture prevents the flu and other illnesses.

Puxada de Rede is a Brazilian folkloric theatrical play, seen in many Capoeira performances.

Elijah is also a figure in various folkloric traditions.

Whatever the precise nature of Hecate's transition into folklore in late Antiquity, she is now firmly established as a figure in Neopaganism, which draws heavily on folkloric traditions associating Hecate with ' The Wild Hunt ', witches, hedges and ' hedge-riding ', and other themes that parallel, but are not explicitly attested in, Classical sources.

The extent to which contemporary Pagans use these sources differs ; many follow a spirituality which they accept is entirely modern, whilst others attempt to reconstruct or revive indigenous, ethnic religions as found in historical and folkloric sources as accurately as possible.

Divination is a common folkloric practice that has also survived in rural areas.

While even folkloric vampires of the Balkans and Eastern Europe had a wide range of appearance ranging from nearly human to bloated rotting corpses, it was interpretation of the vampire by the Christian Church and the success of vampire literature, namely John Polidori's 1819 novella The Vampyre that established the archetype of charismatic and sophisticated vampire ; it is arguably the most influential vampire work of the early 19th century, inspiring such works as Varney the Vampire and eventually Dracula.

It is difficult to make a single, definitive description of the folkloric vampire, though there are several elements common to many European legends.

A werewolf, also known as a lycanthrope ( from the Greek:, lukos, " wolf ", and, anthrōpos, " man "), is a mythological or folkloric human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf or an anthropomorphic wolf-like creature, either purposely or after being placed under a curse and / or lycanthropic affliction via a bite or scratch from a werewolf, or some other means.

His provisional conclusion is that a folkloric form of the poem may have been written by Porter, but that it was supplemented and altered by Thompson to add specifically Wiccan material.

Strikingly similar folkloric aspects of the number 13 have been noted in various cultures around the world: one theory is that this is due to the cultures employing lunar-solar calendars ( there are approximately 12. 41 lunations per solar year, and hence 12 " true months " plus a smaller, and often portentous, thirteenth month ).

A fairy tale ( pronounced / ˈfeəriˌteɪl /) is a type of short story that typically features folkloric fantasy characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants, mermaids, or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments.

In Germany, Till Eulenspiegel is a folkloric hero dating back to medieval times and ruling each year over Fasching or Carnival time, mocking politicians and public figures of power and authority with political satire like a modern day court jester.

In some folkloric histories of the British Isles, the first leader of Cornwall is Corineus, a Trojan warrior and ally of Brutus of Troy, the original settler of the British Isles.

This theory ( as noted ) lacks recognized documentation other than that which is folkloric in nature, involves the French navy, which ( during the Revolution ) had an uncertain level of authority, and would place the construction of the Oak Island structure very close to its initial discovery by Daniel McGinnis in 1795.

He is related to the later mythological and folkloric figure Crom Dubh.

" Notwithstanding their folkloric associations, there is no etymological connection between dragons and the ghoulish figures known as draugar in Old Norse, who haunt rich burial mounds.

Rhythmically, Afro-Cuban folkloric rumba is based on the five-stroke pattern called clave and the inherent structure it conveys.

Ballroom rumba, or rhumba, is basically son and not based on the authentic folkloric rumba.

David Byrne comments, " We don ’ t do covers that look like folkloric records or like academic records of obscure material of interest only to musicologists and a few weird fringe types ... we work with the designers to come up with a graphic statement that says " this music is relevant to your life.

This is found in folklore: King Herla visited Fairy and returned three centuries later ; although only some of his men crumbled to dust on dismounting, Herla and his men who did not dismount were trapped on horseback, this being one folkloric account of the origin of the Wild Hunt.