Alectromancy

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Alectromancy

(Gr.)

Divination by means of 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. [w.w.w.] (TG).

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Shortly: Divination by means of a cock, or other bird; a circle was drawn and divided into spaces, each one a...