Quotes:Alectromancy

H. P. Blavatsky

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.].

Source: H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary, art. Alectromancy