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Also known as alectoromancy, alectromancy

thumb|Alectryomancy foretells a young woman's marriage in Christmastide Divination by Makovsky, c. 1905 Alectryomancy is a form of divination in which the diviner observes a bird, several birds, or most preferably a white rooster or cockerel pecking at grain (such as wheat) that the diviner has scattered on the ground. In ancient Rome, it was the responsibility of the pullarius to feed and keep the birds used. The observer may place grain in the shape of letters and thus discern a divinatory revelation by noting which letters the birds peck at, or the diviner may just interpret the pattern lef