Alectryomancy
Alectryomantie, or Alektryomantie ( from the Greek alektor = cock ) denotes the prediction of the future by a bird, usually a chicken or a black hen or a cock fight. The Alectryomantie is known from Africa but also from Greece.
There are two ways to leave the bird to predict the future:
Swell
- Nevill Drury, Encyclopedia of esoteric knowledge (Munich 1988)
- Wilhelm Vollmer, Wörtberuch the mythology of all peoples (Stuttgart 1874)
- Esoteric
- Mantic
- Bird in the culture