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This is actually the best page on wikipedia. People have apparently used literally EVERYTHING for divination. Highlights include:

• cephaleonomancy/cephalonomancy/ˌsɛfəliˈɒnoʊmænsi/: by boiling a donkey’s head (Greek kephalaion, head [with meaning influenced by Greek onos, donkey] + manteia, prophecy)
• scarpomancy: by old shoes (Italian scarpa, shoe + Greek manteia, prophecy)
• scatomancy: by excrement (Greek skōr [skat-], excrement + manteia, prophecy)
• rumpology (also natimancy): by buttocks (English rump + Greek -logiā, study)
• spatilomancy: by animal excrement (Greek spatilē, excrement + manteia, prophecy)
• styramancy: by observing patterns produced by chewing gum, gum wax, or products produced by the L. styraciflua tree
• uromancy/urimancy: by urine (Greek ouron, urine + manteia, prophecy)

and

• tyromancy/tiromancy /ˈtaɪəroʊmænsi/: by cheese (Greek tūros, cheese + manteia, prophecy)

Professor von Hintern, the eminent rumpologist, was a serious student of the occult. He had no interest whatsoever in mundane physical matters, and not a crass, salacious bone in his body. He examined every posterior that came before him with a cool, steady hand and an unflinchingly clinical eye. The joy he felt gazing upon a pair of nude buttocks was born only from his yearning for divine knowledge, not from any prurience. He reacted with wounded dignity whenever anybody implied otherwise.

Methods of divination – Wikipedia