Divination through chance meetings with animals (e.g., a black cat), birds, and other creatures or divination using objects at hand.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            A divinatory method by which future events are forecast by interpreting omens drawn by chance encounters with animals, birds, or other creatures.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            is divination through chance meetings with animals (e.g., a black cat), birds, and other creatures. Mexico City is said to have been founded where Aztec soothsayers saw an eagle flying from a cactus carrying a live snake.