Alphitomancy (from Greek: ἄλφιτον, romanized: alphiton, lit.
'barley', and μαντεία, manteia, 'divination') is a form of divination involving barley cakes or loaves of barley bread.
[1] When someone in a group was suspected of a crime, the members of the group would be fed barley cakes or slices of barley bread.
Supposedly, the guilty party would get indigestion, while all others would feel well.
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