haruspicy

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The study and divination by use of animal entrails, usually the victims of sacrifice

That our fates should be made dependent upon the stars, planets, and constellations, however preposterous a conceit, at least imparts a dignity to our nature by conjoining earth with Heaven: but that the doom of kings, empires, and individuals, should be regulated by the entrails of victims, as analysed by the butchers of Haruspicy is an evidence of stupid credulity that levels civilised man to the savage.

The art or practices of haruspices