ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Anthropomancy

Well kiddo, anthropomancy is a very strange and old practice where people used to predict the future by looking at the insides of animals, or even dead people! They believed that the spirits of the animals or people could tell them what was going to happen in the future.

It's kind of like trying to see into the future by looking at the guts of a chicken, or some other animal. The people who used to do this thought that they could interpret the patterns or shapes they saw in the animal's insides and use them to make predictions about what would happen next.

But don't worry, we don't do that anymore. Instead, we use things like science and math to predict the future. It's much more accurate and doesn't involve harming any animals or dead people!