- omphalomancy
- Foretelling the future by counting the knots in a baby's umbilical cord
Grandiloquent dictionary. 2006.
omphalomancy
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omphalomancy — divination from the knots in the umbilical cord Divination and Fortune Telling … Phrontistery dictionary
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