aleuromancy

== English == === Etymology === From aleuro- (“wheat flour”) +‎ -mancy (“divination”). === Noun === aleuromancy (uncountable) divination using flour or related products such as dough or cakes and fortune cookies ==== Translations ==== === References === "By Alentomancy, mixing the Flower of Wheat with Oatmeal." -- Gargantua & Pantagruel iii. xxv, Urquhart tr. Rabelais, 1660 "Messages, enclosed in balls of dough, become prophetic of the future. This method, known as aleuromancy, is still in use among the Chinese." -- Treasury of Witchcraft xii, H.E. Wedeck, 1961