crithomancy means divination by interpreting food, usually bread and grain used in sacrifice. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 92 out of 100.
Why “crithomancy” is a great word
CRITHOMANCY — [Noun] Divination by interpreting the behavior of sacrificial grains, particularly barley, when cast upon a fire or altar. From Ancient Greek κριθή (krithḗ, "barley") + μαντεία (manteía, "divination"). Unlike aleuromancy, which reads messages baked inside flour, or pyromancy, which broadly seeks omens in any flame, crithomancy is the precise and anxious scrutiny of a grain’s fate. It is the crackle and leap of a barleycorn on a hot stone, the pattern of its scorching, the silent answer written in its pop or its stillness—a search for cosmic intent in the smallest, most consumable of things.
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- Divination by interpreting food, usually bread and grain used in sacrifice.“1652 Gaule The Magastromancer xix.
Crithomancy, by grain, or corn...”