Anthropomancy (from Greek anthropos, 'man', and manteia, 'divination') is a method of divination by the entrails of dead or dying men or women, often times young virgin female children through sacrifice. This practice was sometimes also called Splanchomancy (divination by examining the entrails of sacrificial victims). This man in Rhumsiki, Cameroon, tells the future by interpreting the changes in position of various objects as caused by a fresh-water crab through nggàm[1]. Divination is the practice of ascertaining information from supernatural sources. ...

Elagabalus (the Roman emperor Varius Avitus Bassanius, 205-221) and the ancient Egyptians were known practitioners of this type of divination, Julian the Apostate allegedly sacrficed countless children for his nocturnal divinations. The slightly more acceptable variety of this is augury, in which a bird is the victim. A bust depicting Elagabalus. ... Events Births Plotinus, according to his student Porphyry. ... Events June 26 - Roman Emperor Elagabalus adopts Alexander Severus as his heir. ... Julian solidus, ca. ... Omens or portents are signs encountered fortuitously that are believed to foretell the future. ...