Associations to the word «Alectryomancy»

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Wiktionary

ALECTRYOMANCY, noun. A form of divination in which the diviner observes a bird, several birds (or most preferably the white rooster or cockerel) pecking at grain that the diviner has scattered on the ground.

Wise words

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