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{{Portal|Religion}} {{More citations needed|date=April 2008}} {{short description|Method of divination}} '''Anthropomancy''' (from [[Greek language|Greek]] ''anthropos'' (''ἄνθρωπος'', man) and ''manteia'' (''μαντεία'', divination)) is a method of [[divination]] by the [[entrails]] of dead or dying men or women through sacrifice. This practice was sometimes also called '''splanchnomancy'''. In ancient [[Etruria]] and [[Ancient Rome|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#Plot|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]] *Voice Like a Hyacinth ==References== *{{cite book|last=Shepard|first=Leslie A.|title=Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780810349155|url-access=registration|year=1991|publisher=Gale Research Inc.|location=Detroit|isbn=0810349078|edition=3rd}} {{Divination}} [[Category:Divination]] {{occult-stub}}
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