alectryomancy

• alectoromancy, alectyromancy, alectormancy, alectromanchy, alectromancy, electromancy, alectromancy

From Latin alectryomantia, from Ancient Greek ἀλεκτρυών (alektruṓn, “rooster”) + Latin -mantia.^[1]

alectryomancy (uncountable)

1. A form of divination in which the diviner observes a bird or birds (preferably a white rooster or cockerel) pecking at grain that the diviner has scattered on the ground.
   • "Alectromancy, by Cooks [sic] or Pullen..." -- The Magastromancer xix, Gaule, 1652

• “alectryomancy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• alectryomancy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• alectyromancy