cephalomancy
nounEtymology From cephalo- + -mancy.
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.
- Cephalomancy was divination by a donkey's head […]1931, Lock tr. de Givry, Picture Museum of Sorcery:
- Related terms
- phrenology