scapulimancy

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Reading bones has so many forms that it comes under many names: scapulimancy, omoplatoscopy, slinneanachd, oracle bones, etc.

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  1. Divination by means of a shoulder-blade: same as omoplatoscopy. The principal art of this kind [the art of divining by bones] is divination by a shoulder-blade, technically called scapulimancy or omoplatoscopy. E. B. Tylor, Prim. Culture, I. 124.

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  • Reading bones has so many forms that it comes under many names: scapulimancy, omoplatoscopy, slinneanachd, oracle bones, etc. —  village idiot savant
 

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  1. from Latin scapulæ, the shoulder-blades, + Greek μαντεία, divination.
 

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