Coscinomancy

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) Divination by means of a suspended sieve.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

in Grecian superstition, was fortune-telling by means of a sieve. When, for example,. a thief was to be detected, the sieve was suspended by a thread in the air, and a number of suspected persons named, the gods being invoked in the meantime. At. whosesoever name the sieve moved, he was held to be. the thief. (See Divination).