cephalomancy

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Etymology[edit]

cephalo- +‎ -mancy

Noun[edit]

cephalomancy (uncountable)

  1. Divination by the study of the skull or head of a donkey or goat. Sometimes described as the roasting of an ass's head on hot coals.
    • 1931, Lock tr. de Givry, Picture Museum of Sorcery:
      Cephalomancy was divination by a donkey's head […]

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