alectryomancy
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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A form of divination in which the diviner observes a bird or birds (preferably a white rooster or cockerel) pecking at grain that the diviner has scattered on the ground.
— "Alectromancy, by Cooks [sic] or Pullen..." -- The Magastromancer xix, Gaule, 1652
词源
From Latin alectryomantia, from Ancient Greek ἀλεκτρυών (alektruṓn, “rooster”) + Latin -mantia.
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