gastromancy

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  1. In antiquity:
  2. A kind of divination among the ancients by means of words which seemed to be uttered from the belly; divination by ventriloquism.
  3. A species of divination by means of large-bellied glasses or other round transparent vessels, in the center of which figures were supposed to appear by magic art.

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  1. from French gastromantie, from Greek γαστήρ (γαστρ-), stomach, + μαντεία, divination. Cf. γαστρομαντεύεσ, σ1θαι, divine by the belly.
 

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