Anthropomancy

Anthropomancy (from Greek anthropos (ἄνθρωπος, man) and manteia (μαντεία, divination)) is a method of divination by the entrails of dead or dying men or women, often virgin female children, through sacrifice. This practice was sometimes also called splanchnomancy. In ancient Etruria and Rome, the usual variety of divination from entrails was haruspicy (performed by a haruspex), in which the sacrifice was an animal.

Practitioners in fiction
gollark: 10 years or so.
gollark: The Intel one has !!FUN!! stuff like 60W idle power use and side channel attacks.
gollark: I currently use an old HP/Intel server and also my repurposed desktop.
gollark: I could probably run most of my stuff on one with no real issues except not having easy access to precompiled x86 binaries.
gollark: They're good for light stuff.

References
  • Shepard, Leslie A. (1991). Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology (3rd ed.). Detroit: Gale Research Inc. ISBN 0810349078.


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