Anthropomancy (from

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''anthropos'' (''ἄνθρωπος'', man) and ''manteia'' (''μαντεία'', divination)) is a method of divination by the

entrails The gastrointestinal tract (GI tract, digestive tract, alimentary canal) is the tract or passageway of the digestive system that leads from the mouth to the anus. The GI tract contains all the major organs of the digestive system, in humans and ...

of dead or dying men or women through sacrifice. This practice was sometimes also called splanchnomancy. In ancient Etruria and

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, the usual variety of divination from entrails was haruspicy (performed by a

haruspex In the religion of ancient Rome, a haruspex (plural haruspices; also called aruspex) was a person trained to practise a form of divination called haruspicy (''haruspicina''), the inspection of the entrails ('' exta''—hence also extispicy ...

), in which the sacrifice was an animal.

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References

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