Why this word is great
SPODOMANCY — [Noun] Divination by interpreting patterns or significance in ashes, cinders, or soot. From the Ancient Greek σποδός (spodós, "ashes, embers") and the suffix -mancy (from μαντεία, manteia, "divination"). Unlike pyromancy, which reads prophecy in the living, leaping drama of flames, or tasseography, which finds meaning in the casual scatter of leaves in a cup, spodomancy is a quiet archaeology of the consumed. It is the soot-stain on a hearthstone holding the ghost of a fire, the careful sifting of fine powder from a burnt offering, or the tracing of a fragile grey fingerprint on a windowsill after a distant conflagration—a practice of seeking direction not in the light, but in what the light leaves behind.