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<p>2A02:8388:8C02:F180:2433:6AC3:B2E1:5DDC: /* Practitioners in fiction */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Portal|Religion}}<br /> {{More citations needed|date=April 2008}}<br /> {{short description|Method of divination}}<br /> '''Anthropomancy''' (from [[Greek language|Greek]] ''anthropos'' (''ἄνθρωπος'', man) and ''manteia'' (''μαντεία'', divination)) is a method of [[divination]] by the [[entrails]] of dead or dying men or women through sacrifice. This practice was sometimes also called '''splanchnomancy'''. In ancient [[Etruria]] and [[Ancient Rome|Rome]], the usual variety of divination from entrails was haruspicy (performed by a [[haruspex]]), in which the sacrifice was an animal.<br /> <br /> ==Practitioners in fiction==<br /> *&quot;[[Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose#Plot|Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose]]&quot;, an episode of ''[[The X-Files]]''<br /> *Nasus, the Curator of the Sands, ''[[League of Legends]]''<br /> *[[Darken Rahl]]<br /> *[[Creatures of Light and Darkness]]<br /> *[[Ninth House]]<br /> *Voice Like a Hyacinth<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> *{{cite book|last=Shepard|first=Leslie A.|title=Encyclopedia of Occultism &amp; Parapsychology|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780810349155|url-access=registration|year=1991|publisher=Gale Research Inc.|location=Detroit|isbn=0810349078|edition=3rd}}<br /> <br /> {{Divination}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Divination]]<br /> <br /> <br /> {{occult-stub}}</div>

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