Divination

beable  wondered if the flour scattered on my kitchen counter was because I'd been doing baking or divination.

Baking, actually.  But we discussed what divination-by-flour would be called.  My first suggestion was "farinomancy".  Beable then checked on the Greek root, and suggested "aleuromancy".

It turns out that "aleuromancy" is the correct name and is a classic historic method of divination.  Go figure.

It should not be confused with "ailuromancy".

Aside: Another phone spammer this morning, trying to sell me a promotional cell phone system, via a pair of phone calls full of garble and dropouts and cut-offs.  The first call was so bad that I was getting working sound less than 10% of the time.  Why do they bother?