Tephramancy
A mode of divination in which use is made of the ashes of the fire which had consumed the victims of a sacrifice.
Teraphim, The: Of the nature of oracles. The teraphim were taken away from Jacob by his daughter, Rachel, and this mention of them in the Bible is the earliest record we have of "magical" apparatus. Their form is not known, nor the exact use to which they were put; but from an allusion to them in Hosea III., 4, they were evidently not idols. Spencer maintains that they were the same as the Urim of Mosaic ritual at any rate it seems likely that they were used as a means of divination..