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Spoduim may mean; Latin for ash, burned bone (usually for medical purposes), or the act of divinination with ash.

Spodium has a long history of medical usage, mentioned by Hippocrates and, for example, in the The Medical Poem of Salerno ...Who knows the cause why Spodium stancheth bleeding?...