Monday, April 20, 2009

The Word-Hoard: Cephaleonomancy

Cephaleonomancy: Divination by a broiled asse's head. (Elisha Coles' English Dictionary, 1713); Cephaleonomancy, or the art of divination by an ass' head, is a species of art magic which still flourishes in England. (Robert Southey's Letters from England, 1807).

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