Gastromancy - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Gastromancy is from Greek gastēr (meaning "belly") and manteia (meaning "prophecy"). It can refer to:

Crystal ball gazing
Crystal gazing
Crystal-gazing is a form of divination or scrying achieved through trance induction by means of gazing at a crystal....

: i.e., gazing into round ("belly-shaped") objects.
Divination by use of guttural sounds (i.e., from the belly) to represent the voice of the dead. See Ventriloquism#Origins

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