haruspicy

Etymology
From, from +.

Noun

 * 1) Divination by use of animal entrails, usually the victims of sacrifice.
 * 2) * 1825, Horace Smith, Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries, Volume II, H. Colburn, page 333:
 * 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
 * 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

Translations

 * French: ,
 * Latin: extispicium, haruspicium