Written accounts of the practice date from the 2nd century AD, with it reaching the height of its popularity in the Middle Ages and early modern period.
[5][2] In a piece for food magazine Saveur, 21st-century tyromancer Jennifer Billock wrote that the practice of cheese fortune-telling reached peak popularity in agrarian England in the middle ages and early modern period.
She has based this method on sources including antique spell manuals and dream interpretation book transcripts, saying "there wasn't any sort of central repository of tyromancy information".
[2] An episode of animated television series Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts features three goat witches, the Chevre sisters, who use cheese to tell the future.
[9] The video game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt features a quest named "Of Dairy and Darkness" involving a mage with connections to tyromancy.