Cephalomancy

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Noun
  1. 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. uncountable

    "Cephalomancy was divination by a donkey's head […]"

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Etymology

From cephalo- + -mancy.

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