sortilege
noun
[ ˈsɔːtɪlɪdʒ ]
• the practice of foretelling the future from a card or other item drawn at random from a collection.
Origin:
late Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin sortilegium ‘sorcery’, from Latin sortilegus ‘sorcerer’, from Latin sors, sort- ‘lot, chance’ + legere ‘choose’.
