alectryomancer
English edit
Noun edit
alectryomancer (plural alectryomancers)
- A practitioner of alectryomancy.
- 1985, Cathleen Jordan, Alfred Hitchcock's no harm undone, page 113:
- I was unprepared for the change in attire and started slightly when the alectryomancer reappeared.
- 2001, Clifford A. Pickover, Dreaming the Future: The Fantastic Story of Prediction, page 81:
- The alectryomancer sometimes wishes to know the name of a person and allows a bird to pick corn grains from letters drawn in a circle on the ground.
- 2008, Bob Sheasley, Home to Roost: A Backyard Farmer Chases Chickens Through the Ages, →ISBN:
- The alectryomancers knew how to tap the power of the living chicken.