[/quote]One thing of interest I discovered is this book-
- Alectryomantia, Seu Divinatio Magica cum Gallis Gallinaceis peracta
http://diglib.hab.de/drucke/hr-331/start.htm
One of the most common rituals around the world is divination with a chicken. (One of the most common performances is taking a chicken and cutting it's head off and tossing it in a sack and then pulling out a live chicken.)
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divination with chickens- well, the practice is not at all unusual- it is called "aklectromancy" , and it involves making a circle, writing the letters of the alphabet on 26 segments into which the circle has been divided, and putting a grain of corn upon them. a chicken is set loose, and the chicken would eat certan grains of corn. the letters under which the grain of corn was placed would spell out the word