Anthropomancy

Anthropomancy (from Greek "anthropos" ("ἄνθρωπος", man) and "manteia" ("μαντεία", divination)) is a method of divination by the entrails of dead or dying men or women, often virgin female children, through sacrifice. This practice was sometimes also called splanchnomancy. In ancient Etruria and Rome, the usual variety of divination from entrails was haruspicy (performed by a haruspex), in which the sacrifice was an animal.