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kephalomancy

kephalomancy is the alternative spelling of cephalomancy.

Meaning of cephalomancy

Noun

cephalomancy (uncountable)

  1. Divination by the study of the skull or head of a donkey or goat. Sometimes described as the roasting of an ass's head on hot coals.
    • Cephalomancy was divination by a donkey's head […]1931, Lock tr. de Givry, Picture Museum of Sorcery

Questions about kephalomancy

What is kephalomancy the alternative spelling of?
Kephalomancy is the alternative spelling of cephalomancy.

Words near kephalomancy in the dictionary

  1. kephalin
  2. kephaline
  3. kephalines
  4. kephalins
  5. Kephallenia
  6. kephalomancy
  7. Kephart
  8. Kepharts
  9. kephir
  10. kephirs
  11. Kephissia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kephalomancy (page history and authors); cephalomancy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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