Aleuromancy (from Greek aleuron, flour, and manteia, divination) refers to forms of divination involving flour.
Another form of aleuromancy consisted of interpreting patterns of flour left in a bowl in which a flour and water slurry had been mixed and poured out from.
In its original form, slips of paper containing philosophical writings would be baked inside of cakes or cookies, which would then be distributed to those wishing their fortunes to be told.
ALEUROMANCY: Divination through sortilege of fortunes written on slips of paper.
Aleuromancy was the domain of Apollo in some traditions.
ALECTORMANCY, ALECTROMANCY, ALECTRYOMANCY: Divination through interpreting the appearance and behavior of sacred chickens (originally); current versions include the interpretation of fowls eating grain and marking the cock's crow as letters are recited.
ALEUROMANCY- Quite like that of a fortune cookie, this form of divination consists of baking messages inside special cakes or cookies and then selecting one at random, opening it to reveal your fortune.
In Europe, aleuromancy is responsible for the old custom of baking a silver coin inside a cake.
This form of aleuromancy was ruled by the god Apollo.
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Aleuromancy is not widely practised today, but modern-day fortune cookies are a form of this type of fortune-telling.
In this instance the proposition that the ancient Greek aleuromancy continued beyond the end of the Grecian period, was somehow transported to China, then lost to the Chinese, except to those who emmigrated to North America and took up the restaurant trade, is ludicrous.
Similarly impossible is the alternate proposition that the whole of humanity, (or at least the Greeks as well as the Chinese) in ancient times practised some common form of aleuromancy, of which the making of fortune cookies is the only vestige remaining.
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