Also ‑mantic and ‑mancer.
Divination.
Greek manteia, divination.
Though many words exist in this ending, most are rare; among common ones are geomancy and necromancy. For details, and more commonly encountered ones, Some have corresponding adjectives in ‑mantic (geomantic, necromantic) and a few have related forms in ‑manter for a person who practices divination in that way (cartomancer, necromancer).
Some words seem to include this ending through an accident of spelling: adamancy, dormancy, and others contain ‑cy but not ‑mancy.
Examples of words in -mancy
Word origins are from Greek.
aeromancy
prediction by observing weather conditions
aēr, air
arithmancy
divination using numbers, especially by counting the number values of letters in names
arithmos, number
bibliomancy
telling the future by interpreting a randomly chosen passage from a book, especially the Bible
biblion, book
cartomancy
fortune telling by interpreting a random selection of playing cards
French carte, card
chiromancy
the prediction of a person's future from the lines on the palms of their hands; palmistry
kheir, hand
geomancy
divination from the configuration of a handful of earth or random dots
gē, earth
hydromancy
foretelling the future using a reflective object or surface, such as that of water in a bowl; scrying
hudōr, water
necromancy
communicating with the dead, especially in order to predict the future; more generally, witchcraft, sorcery, or black magic
nekros, corpse
oneiromancy
the interpretation of dreams in order to foretell the future
oneiros, dream
pyromancy
divination by fire or by forms appearing in fire
pur, fire
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