alphitomancy

  1. Noun.  Ancient Greek method of divination using barley meal.
  2. Noun.  A divination practise used to reveal guilty parties my feeding a person or group barley meal. The innocent, it is said, would feel no effects, but the guilty would feel indigestion. Also known as Cursed Bread.

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