Hyponyms

* alomancy, divination by salt, one type of which involves casting salt into a fire * botanomancy, divination by burning plants * capnomancy, divination by smoke; light, thin smoke that rose straight up was a good omen; otherwise, a bad one. * causinomancy, divination by burning (non-specific as to the object burned) * daphnomancy (also, empyromancy), divination by burning laurel leaves * osteomancy, divination using bones, one type of which involves heating to produce cracks * plastromancy, divination using turtle plastrons; in China, this was done by heating pits carved into them. * scapulimancy, divination by scapulae; in Asia and North America, this was done pyromantically. * sideromancy, divination by burning straw.