Alectoromancy

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Alectryomancy
Alectryomancy (also called alectoromancy or alectomancy) is a form of divination in which the diviner observes a bird, several birds (or most preferably a white rooster or cockerel) pecking at grain (such as wheat) that the diviner has scattered on the ground. The observer may place grain in the shape of letters and thus discern a divinatory revelation by noting which letters the birds peck at, or the diviner may just interpret the pattern left by the birds' pecking in randomly scattered grain.
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Alectoromancy
(n.)
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Alectryomancy
Alectryomancy, Alectoromancy [from Greek alektyon, alektor cock] Divination using a cock or other bird; "a circle was drawn and divided into spaces, each one allotted to a letter; corn was spread over these places and note was taken of the successive lettered divisions from which the bird took grains of corn." (TG 16)

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