Joseph's cup was used for the purpose, and in Numbers, the elders of Balak went to Balaam with the rewards of divination in their hands.

The belief in enchantments and witchcraft was universal, and the strong enactments against witches in the Old Testament made a belief in them almost imperative until more rational beliefs came into vogue in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Whatever view we may take of it, the medicine of the New Testament is full of interest.

Divination is only referred to once in the Acts (xvi, 16), where a damsel is said to be possessed of a spirit of divination "which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying." There is only one mention of astrology (Acts vii, 43); there are no witches, neither are there charms or incantations.

The diseases mentioned are numerous: demoniac possession, convulsions, paralysis, skin diseases,--as leprosy,--dropsy, haemorrhages, fever, fluxes, blindness and deafness.
And the cure is simple usually a fiat of the Lord, rarely with a prayer, or with the use of means such as spittle.

They are all miraculous, and the same power was granted to the apostles--"power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease." And more than this, not only the blind received their sight, the lame walked, the lepers were cleansed, the deaf heard, but even the dead were raised up.