scapulimancy

American

[skap-yuh-luh-man-see] / ˈskæp yə ləˌmæn si /

Or scapulomancy

noun

divination of the future by observation of the cracking of a mammal's scapula that has been heated by a fire or hot instrument.

First recorded in 1870–75; scapul(a) + -i- + -mancy

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