Want to know the future or predict the weather? Watch your cat.
Likely originating in Egypt, ailuromancy is “a form of telling the future by observing the jumps or movements of a cat and where they happen to land,” according to the Catalog of the Unexplained.
This form of divination is also known as aeluromancy or felidomancy and is classified as a theriomancy, which is any divination involving animals.