Xylomancy
Xylomancy
Divination by means of wood, practiced particularly in Slavonia. It was the art of reading omens from the position of small pieces of dry wood found in one's path. Presages of future events were also drawn from the arrangement of logs in the fireplace and from the manner in which they burned.
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