engastrimythian

Updated: June 18, 2025

By gastromancy, which kind of ventral fatiloquency was for a long time together used in Ferrara by Lady Giacoma Rodogina, the Engastrimythian prophetess. By cephalomancy, often practised amongst the High Germans in their boiling of an ass's head upon burning coals.

François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3