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This page describes the practice. There is deliberately no automated reading for it — see the notes below.
Background
Scapulimancy uses shoulder blades for divination. It is most widely known from China and the Sinosphere as oracle bones, but developed independently elsewhere, including the West.
How it works
A bone was heated until it cracked and the pattern of cracks was read as an answer to a question.
Notes and limits
Safety: Described as history only. Never harm animals for divination.
At a glance
- Also called
- Scapulomancy, Omoplatoscopy
- Traditions
- Chinese, Many
- Regions
- East Asia, Europe, Worldwide / modern
- You need
- Nothing
- Price
- Free