Anthropomancy (from Greek anthropos (ανθροπος, man), and manteia (μαντεια, divination) is a method of divination by the entrails of dead or dying men or women, often virgin female children, through sacrifice. This practice was sometimes also called splanchomancy. In ancient Etruria and Rome, the usual variety of divination from entrails was haruspicy (performed by an haruspex), in which a sacrificial animal was the victim.

Practitioners in fiction

• Darken Rahl

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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Anthropomancy". Image Credit.

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