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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/women through sacrifice. 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.
