Poppy seeds
A few poppy or jasmine seeds were flung on burning coals by magicians when practicing divination by smoke.
Another technique was to cast some jasmine, laurel leaves, granulated incense, or poppy seeds upon burning coals to observe the smoke behavior and sniff it, and then draw omens from the alleged observations.
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 See also: Divination, Magic
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