tiromancy

Mar. 1st, 2012 07:16 am
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tiromancy or tyromancy (TIE-roh-man-see) - n., divination by using cheese.


Per standard dictionary, especially by watching it coagulate, but works on divination document that just about any aspect of cheeses could be used: the pattern of holes or of molds, which of two pieces grew mold first, which piece a mouse ate first, and so on. Coined from Greek roots tūros, cheese + mancy, method of divination. (You all do know that necromancy is not originally performing magic on the dead but divining the future from the dead, right?)

---L.

Date: 2012-03-02 06:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spacedlaw.livejournal.com
I can easilly predict my getting fatter just by looking at cheese. Does this count?

Date: 2012-03-02 02:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] prettygoodword.livejournal.com
I'm guessing that's outside the scope of this.

---L.

Date: 2012-03-05 05:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ersatz-read.livejournal.com
Excellent word. Now I hunger for the future.

Date: 2012-03-09 02:52 pm (UTC)
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