cephalomancy
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editcephalomancy (uncountable)
- 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 […]