axinomancy (aksinor aksinomansi)

[ ancient kind of divination for the detection of crime by means of an ax or axes. One form consisted in poising an ax on a bar, and repeating the names of persons suspected. If the ax moved at the name 402 Axiolite. Specimen of rhyolite from Virginia Range, Nevada, magnified 100 diameters. (From Zirkel's "Microscopical Petrography.")