Anthropomancy

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Anthropomancy (from Greek anthropos (ἄνθρωπος, man) and manteia (μαντεία, divination)) is a method of divination by the entrails of dead or dying men or women, often virgin female children, through sacrifice.^{[citation needed]} This practice was sometimes also called splanchnomancy. In ancient Etruria and Rome, the usual variety of divination from entrails was haruspicy (performed by a haruspex), in which the sacrifice was an animal.

Practitioners in fiction[]

• "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose", an episode of The X-Files
• Nasus, the Curator of the Sands, League of Legends
• Darken Rahl
• Creatures of Light and Darkness
• Ninth House

References[]

• Shepard, Leslie A. (1991). Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology (3rd ed.). Detroit: Gale Research Inc. ISBN 0810349078.

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