myomancy

myomancy
Divination by interpreting rats or mice. Their cries were believed to indicate the presence of evil.

Myomancy was a method of divination by rats and mice, and is supposed to be alluded to in Isaiah lxvi. 17. Their peculiar cries, or some marked devastation committed by them, was taken for a prognostic of evil.


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