A form of divination or fortune-telling supposedly done by examining heads, skulls, or brain matter.
From Greek kephalē (head) + manteia (divination, prophecy). This ancient practice appears in historical texts about various cultures that believed the head held prophetic power.
Ancient Greeks and Romans actually practiced cephalomancy, reading the future from animal skulls and heads—it shows how people have always been fascinated by the head as the seat of thought and fate, even when the methods were totally unscientific.
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