The Romans had their Sybilline books and their Etruscan custom of haruspication (divination from entrails). From Wordnik.com. [CHANCE] Reference
Other sets of synonyms include, in addition to the aforementioned haruspicy and haruspication: caloptromancy and enoptromancy; spodomancy and tephramancy (or tephromancy); alectryomancy and alectoromancy; astromancy and sideromancy; crystallomancy and gastromancy; hieromancy and hieroscopy; necromancy and sciomancy; ornithomancy and orniscopy; and scapulimancy and omoplatoscopy. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 2] Reference
(haruspication). From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference
Others include, for example, chirognomy, chiroscopy, haruspicy (or haruspication), hieroscopy, horoscopy, keraunoscopy, omoplatoscopy, orniscopy and palmistry. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 2] Reference
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