coskinomancy

Updated: May 12, 2025

But I've no read o' a case in which necromancy, nor geomancy, nor coskinomancy, nor ony other mancy, was applied to sic a purpose as this. Unco gude they were, may be, for the discovery o' stolen spunes but no that o' stolen tailors."

Charles Kingsley - Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography