Kephalonomancy
A method of divination which is practised by making divers signs on the baked head of an ass. was familiar to the Germans and the Lombards substituted for it the head of a goat. The ancients placed lighted carbon on an ass's head, and pronounced the names of those who were suspected of any crime. If a crackling coincided with the utterance of a name, the latter was taken as being that of the guilty person.