Alphitomancy
the use of barley meal as a means of divination.
historical examples
by alphitomancy, cried up by theocritus in his pharmaceutria.
gargantua and pantagruel, complete. francois rabelais
the expression which i should have employed was alphitomancy, a divination “by meal, flower, or branne.”
the medicine-men of the apache. (1892 n 09 / 1887-1888 (pages 443-604)) john g. bourke
noun
divination by barley meal or loaves of barley
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