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Originally Posted by Grr.meow Oh this was going to be a very noisy lesson he he he. just randomly her hands went to her belly "hope no ones trying to speak to me" she thought while trying to figure out why she knew about this already. Holding up her hand she said"Professor, its called Gastromancy. It has to do with standing over someones grave and they are able to comminucate through the sounds of the belly?" she had heard one of her crazy aunts talk about this before but she was actually really surprised that it had stuck with her.
__________________ Hearing the second year Cassie beamed and gave her snaps, “Yes you are correct, it is Gastromancy. Back in time people did stand over graves and try to communicate. The sounds of the belly were considered the voice of the dead, but this changed many times over the years.” This was a very complex form, she hoped they would all understand it. Quote:
Originally Posted by fearlessleader19 Aw, man! His answer hadn't been right. Ah, well. But did they have to sit again? Disappointing but Adi knew they could not keep moving through the lesson so he flopped down back beside Zhenya. He eyed his Professor? Did she just say GASSIER foods? LOL! Divination... using the sounds of the stomach was what they were doing? It did sound familiar. It was likely he had read on it.
So... bodily noises it was. Adi removed his specs as the lights were dimmed and after a bit of racking his brains, he raised his hand. "Gastromancy. They use it on the dead because... um...those that have passed on, if the bodies were fresh enough, the bodies made the same sounds as the stomachs of the living and it was easier to listen to the dead?'' You know, the sound of the gasses moving around. Anyway, was Adi even making sense? He looked at Professor Cassie, frowning a bit. He wasn't sure he put that into the best explanation. Hey, at least he gave it a shot. Looking towards Adi she gave him some snaps, “Very good you are correct, as the body just passes and the bodily functions do keep going. Gasses pass through, hair still grows, and nails keep getting longer. So I freshly deceased body would be better to do this form on then one that had been passed for some time.” Quote:
Originally Posted by JustAlice Rowan was about to point out that A: some cheese had animals fats in and wasn't vegetarian and B: not eating dairy made you a vegan, not a vegetarian, but she had learned from her family never to be harsh when someone was talking about food cause then they'd call you a self-righteous vegan somethingorother, and whilst that may be true, it wasn't good to make people judge you just because you preferred a cruelty-free diet. So she kept her mouth shut.
Also, she quite liked it when the professor clicked at her, and she didn't want to upset her AT ALL. Especially cause she thought this might just be her favourite class ever.
.......
Okay but really? Rowan had NEVER heard of food divination, not seriously... wizards were weird. Sounded cool though, and it meant she could eat, so she was down. She listened to what people were saying and tried to come up with a different answer - wasn't worth repeating what everyone else said. "Professor, does a person's ghost come out if they fart after they're dead?"
Yeah, that'd do it.
______________ When her green eyes fell on the first year, Rowan she couldn’t help but chuckle, that would be such a sight. Giving her snaps, “That is a great thought and you aren’t far off from what some thought when this first originated. Many were afraid of demons and curses that could haunt after a person’s death. So some believed this form could communicate and release those evils away from earth. Other’s believed that the dead could help them with the future, so finding the omen within. ” Always so interesting how things evolved if you looked at it. History was so fun! Quote:
Originally Posted by Saraie Nom nom nom
She was running around Emmy. She wasn't going to get her she ran and ate and ran from Emmy. Not that she was afraid of her. Because she wasn't. Not all at. It was just that Emmy was quite protective over her candy. She was sure that Emmy kept a count of every piece now. Hehe. She couldn't help it she needed the candy! But the candy had ended up being a bad idea.
The sixth year was sitting there listening to Cassie talk about what the lesson was going to be about today. She kind of couldn't help but to silently giggle to herself over the lesson. The ways they could divinate things. Cats, crystals, water and ton of other things. Weird and cool. Apparently using bodily sounds to tell the future. Cinna snorted at the baby lions (Rusty) answer she couldn't help it. It was too cute. She was never getting into Emmy's candy again. She raised her hand. "Gastromancy. It's used to find omens?" That was right. right? She wasn't sure how exactly the dead was going to tell omens but she felt that she was on the right track here. “Correct, omens were a huge part of why Gastromancy became so popular in the 1600’s.” Cinnamon got snaps for her great answer. Quote:
Originally Posted by GoldenSnake Natalia was already at her seat. Haha.
After listening to the professor's lecture, Natalia now understood why they had to do all these trivial things...it turned out the random feast wasn't trivial at all! So, the gassier the food, the more likely and louder the stomach makes the sounds, the better the results of the reading, huh? It made sense in the overall picture. Interesting...
Natalia had never heard of such a type of divination, but she did admit that it was rather creative. Whoever came up with stomach-growl-reading must have been very bored but very imaginative...Einstein? Hurhur.
"I have no idea what it's called, but I guess it makes sense to listen to someone's stomach after they're not living anymore..." It was difficult for Natalia to justify her answer logically; she just felt that no living person would allow another person to listen to their stomachs! How weird would that be? "I mean...it is very possible to fit a tiiiiny person in the stomach." So logically, the older civilization would have believed a person could be trapped in the stomach. Giving Natalia snaps she nodded, “It does make sense and we have evolved, but if you think about even the muggle history back then, they thought all crazy things. This form of divination has been used both by muggles and wizards. “ Quote:
Originally Posted by littledharmpir AHAHAHAHAHAHA. Hayden had taken her seat again as instructed but she almost fell out of it again because she was laughing so hard. They were going to tell the future through FARTS? HAHAHAHA. Okay no, not funny. She was a nice, mature, fourth year lady. And it wasn't funny. Okay it was a little bit funny. It was pretty funny but Hayden would stop laughing because she had to at least pretend it was not funny. Hopefully that wouldn't be too hard.
Hayden had no idea what that kind of divination would be called. One girl gave a very logical answer. Gastromancy. Alright that made sense. But why would they want to use that? Who would think there was any logical sense in that? Hayden did have one idea, so she raised her hand.
"Maybe they thought that after people were dead their farts were actually messages in morse code." Maybe the dead could communicate about life was like after death, but they could only communicate through farts. HAHAHAHA. Nope not funny at all.
She really wasn’t trying to be a immature child, but even at 35 she couldn’t help a small giggle at Hayden’s fart answer. “Well it’s more then just farts. Bodily noises can be gurgles throughout the stomach, have you ever felt a gas bubble in your chest? The noises don’t have to be coming fully out of your bottom or mouth to be used in Gastromancy.” Hayden certainly got snaps for her answer though. Quote:
Originally Posted by Squishy Oooh, so she was right about the food being delicious and wrong about it being used for readings. LOL at them doing readings based on bodily noises, though. Okay, she was 16 but that didn't mean she couldn't get a little silent giggle over the idea. Some of these divination methods sure sounded odd. She HAD read about this last term though, while studying for her OWLs.
Raising her hand, Lux took a shot at answering the question. "This form of Divination is called Gastromancy. Maybe it's used as a method of communicating with the dead? Because maybe if the body is fresh enough, it still makes bodily noises?" Ehhh, that was as good a guess as any. Giving Lux snaps, Cassie nodded, “If the body is fresh enough the gasses are still moving around. Though back in the 1600’s people tried this form on graves that had been sitting for years. People get desperate when they want to communicate with loved ones and this was a way for some to do it. Though it really wasn’t the reason for Gastromancy.” Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry174 Angel raised her hand. "Professor isn't it called Gastromancy because it takes the voices from the belly?" Angel then thought about something. "So does that mean all the Ventriloquist people today are thought to be able to do this?" Angel was really lost and confused now. Looking to Angel Cassie gave a nod, “It is voices in the belly or so people said back then. We know now that it is gasses not actual voices. Ventriloquist is different, but many people that don’t believe in Divination started saying that Gastromancy was nothing more then them tricking the community or the grieving loved ones.” Always someone to try and say her profession was a fake, but haters would hate. Angel got snaps before she moved to the next person. Quote:
Originally Posted by Felixir Toby was a big fan of this whole trend of the professors getting the students moving and grooving at the start of lessons. First Quigley, now Professor Cassie. And then there was Airey who aaaaaaaaaaaalways had them doing a lot of fun stuff that was almost like PE. Yeah. Toby liked this. He was still smiling and happy even when they were told to stop and go sit down, even. Though... a lot more bouncy now.
It was not always such a brilliant idea to hype this not-child up.
Wait... was Prof. Cassie trying to make them gassy?
Oh boy, THIS was gonna be a hilarious lesson. Or completely embarrassing. Or both. Or neither. It would... definitely be informative, right? Bahahaha. And AH! So she DID mean literal darkness? Well THAT just made Toby even happier, and he beamed as the lights were lowered. Oh, but then death talk. Maybe THAT was the dark thing? It was all very confusing to think about.
SO... what was the name for divining using... those sounds? No idea. Still, he raised his hand to answer 'cause WHY NOT. "Gurgle-omancy?" Oh... wait, probably not, as everyone else was saying that other thing. Welp. Toby pushed ahead anyway. "And, like, you said the sounds are like someone talking. Sooooo maybe it was used on the, um... living impaired... because they would be talking from beyond the grave. Like a... a... gaseous medium."
__________________ Smiling proudly at Toby she gave him snaps, “That’s a great try, but it’s Gastromancy. Gastro for the digestive system and gas of course.” Listening to the rest she gave him another snap and nodded, “Yes, that is exactly how many described it. The dead were giving a message, so they were talking to their loved ones through these sounds.” Quote:
Originally Posted by Kace Kace smiled and I mean Professor Cassie did have great taste in food. I mean she had all his favorites here. That counted for something right? He began to snack on his food, when Professor Cassie asked him how does the food giving him energy relate to Divination? He honestly had NO idea and was stumped. He smiled and said, "I will get back to you on that one.." Then he went back to his seat and thought about it. How in the bloody merlin did food have to do with Divination? I mean he couldn't think of any ideas. He heard her addressing the class. Woaaahhh she picked gassier food!? Umm....Professor Cassie do you know what you are up against? No wonder he felt his stomach bubbling.
When he heard he could burp. Kace grinned gleefully like a kid in a toy store. Don't mind I do. He was already feeling one coming on. He did a little...
"BBUURRRRPPPPPP...." and he turned around and it felt awkward but relieving at the same time. He might as well be polite, "Excuse me.." he said and couldn't help but hold back a chuckle.
This lesson was getting better and better. Props to you Professor Cassie. Props to you. He heard the term was Gastromancy because that sounded legit. He had no idea why they would use it. Kace was gonna give an answer coming out of his butt, "Professor I think they communicate using bodily functions like burping or farting because it is simple like code I guess. It is something the spirits understand. I mean they can't really speak because it is delayed but I guess simple sounds are easier to imitate to the person." That was his guess. Oh and look someone had already started, “Very good Kace, we will talk a little later on burping, but nice to show the class the sound.” She gave him snapped not at all offended that he had just burped in class. “The noises are some what like codes, which we will talk more about later. Depending on the sound and on the number of sounds would mean different things.” Very good observation from the seventh year. Quote:
Originally Posted by Tiro MacMhuirich Marsha grinned wide as she was told to eat up. Best Professor ever. She thought as she opened her can of pepsi and took a sip before she pulled her plate over and started to fill it with as many foods as she liked that were in front of her. So much fruit! And cheeses and everything! Hehe.
As she nibbled on some of the food on her plate, Professor Cassie asked them to get up and move around. Um… Food… Dancing… Foood… Daaancing… With a smile, she popped some more berries into her mouth and then stood up to join Rusty in dancing. She really didn’t have any good ideas for why they were eating these foods specifically, so she didn’t say anything simply listened to the others opinions and suggestions.
However, when Professor Cassie told them to sit down again, she did so with a big grin as she continued eating the yummy food on her plate. And Pepsi! In glass! How awesome was this?
Gastronomy… Hmm. Interesting.
Hand raise. ”Oh, is it not also due to the fact that when people die, their bodies are still processing the food and drink that we have eaten in the previous day? But in the 17th century, it wasn’t likely that they would know that science agreed with that - so they probably assumed it was a ghost or a demon or something.” She paused and frowned slightly. ”I think, they were paranoid about people sneezing too… Is that not where the term ‘Bless you’ comes from? They thought it would stop their souls leaving their bodies... “ Right?
Was she just rambling now? Probably. She should maybe just keep eating and listen instead of babbling Looking to the first year, Cassie snapped happily, “Yes, very good. The body is still digesting even though the heart and brain has stopped. This goes with hair and nails as well. Muggles fearful of the diseases that took many and the unknown did start that saying for soul purposes. Very good.” Such bright student, she just adored teaching them. Quote:
Originally Posted by ScarletCharm104 Marigold had turned a bit pale, even after eating food, because stomach things GROSSED HER OUT. It was WEIRD. It was just one of those things. So she scrunched herself close together, arms crossed over her stomach, and raised her voice to be heard. "Gastromancy?" she asked. She had heard that word before somewhere. Looking to Marigold, Cassie gave snaps and smiled, “Very good it is Gastromancy.” Quote:
Originally Posted by Jessiqua Zhenya tried not to crack a smile as she looked Adi in the eye, siriusly, and said "No, just one." She waited a few seconds before her composure cracked and she giggled, offering more than one to Adi.
And now onto flatulence. Zhenya tried so hard to keep a straight face, but she was still a bit giggly from all the fun they had been having, and she felt her face involuntarily crack into a big grin, a giggle bubbling up. Honestly, she was SEVENTEEN! She should be more mature than this. But she actually wasn't.
She vaguely remembered something about it, and was a but annoyed at herself for not thinking about it in the first place. Not joining the dots. Food + divination = not a party. Well, a party maybe but not the answer Professor Cassie was looking for. The bit she did remember from the gas-divination, she decided she should say. She raised her hand and waited to be called on, "People used to listen to the gut sounds and interpret it as the dead talking to them," or something like that. Cassie turned to Zhenya next and gave her snaps, “Yes, people would listen to the sounds to interpret what the dead were saying. It has evolved to use on living as well now, but we will get to that in just a bit.” She didn’t want to get ahead of herself. Quote:
Originally Posted by Griffin Penelope sat down when Professor Cassie said that they should find their seats again. There was a kind of divination about stomach sounds? Fascinating. Apparently there were branches of divination for everything. However, she wasn't sure what this particular form of divination was called. Many other students seemed to agree that it was called gastromancy. Gastromancy would be a logical name for it because gastro meant that it had something to do with the stomach. So it probably was gastromancy. "Gastromancy, because gastro means relating to the stomach."
What was that second part of the question? Use it on somebody who has already passed on? "They used it on dead people?" Eeew. Why would anyone do that? And how could they hear dead people's stomach sounds if the people had been buried in the cemetery or had been dead for so long that they didn't have stomachs producing stomach noises? They weren't going to have to do that, right? Just on living people with the food that they were eating. Penelope turned her attention back to her food. She sipped her soda and nibbled on the food as she listened to what other people were saying. So, how could stomach sounds be used for divination? She was slightly skeptical that stomach sounds could tell you anything that would be useful for divination purposes.
__________________ “Very good Penelope. It is Gastromancy because of the stomach.” She was getting snaps for her great answer, but she always got a little chuckle with the question. “It is sometimes, we do use it on living as well now a days.” Again they would touch on that in a moment. Quote:
Originally Posted by RandomRaven So, this wasn't about the healthy food but the ones that could produce gas to your stomach. He just knew about that. He kept listening to the Professor Cassie as he munched his peach. Nom nom.
So, they're gonna learn about gut sounds? To be honest, it sounded gross. Especially when there's an older student burping. EEEEEWWWW!! It was totally gross... and impolite. He wasn't a person who often act with polite manners but still... Burping in front of many people and there's a Professor in it? Not good. The Korean guy couldn't help but shook his head. "Well uh.. does it related about listening to your gut when making decision?" He tried to answer. She liked the next answer, “Some say that is where that saying came from, especially as Gastromancy evolved to not only be about the dead. “ She certainly gave him snaps, what a great thought to use for his answer. Quote:
Originally Posted by nanyjj Huhhh she didn't get snaps! Well, her answer WAS kind of bad. It was all because of Noel haha. She sat down again, rather reluctantly, pulling him along. Oh. The real answer was pretty unexpected - gassy food. Who would have guessed THAT? And then the music was off and the lights dimmed. Great, Leah liked dramatic settings.
"Gas something," she said with her hand raised. Listening to her classmates speaking up, she remembered the term. "Oh yeah, Gastromancy." After a pause, she continued, "Are dead people easier to work with?" It was a guess. She did not really want to think about it anymore. Leah had an interesting question and she gave her snaps, “Some would certainly say they are easier to work with, I’d prefer to work with the living though. That’s just me really.” She wasn’t that big of a fan of darker Divination, so using dead people’s bodies wasn’t her cup of tea. Quote:
Originally Posted by samia Gassy food? THAT was the answer? Noel didn't appreciate it because things could get a little nasty in the classroom if everyone kept eating like this. THANKFULLY he hadn't tried anything yet thinking it had been just healthy food.
Noel let Leah pull him down and watched as the lights dim. Ohh theatrics.
Everyone else started giving the answer .. so there was no point repeating it. But he did ask: "Dead people have gas?" Oh these students, they were so much fun. She gave Noel a smile and a little chuckle along with snaps. “Yes they do for a little while. The body is still releasing the gasses after the person has passed, so the stomach noises would certainly still be there.” Quote:
Originally Posted by PhoenixStar No more moving? Boo. AJ took her seat and continued to popped the last of her food in her mouth. Now maybe should concentrate. Actually that wasn't likely. She was more in the mood for a nap now. Yawn.
But then her ears perked up, and suddenly the last thing she wanted was a nap. Farts, farts, farts. This was highly amusing and the lion didn't even try to hide her laugh. This was going to be one of the funniest lessons ever. She wondered how the girly girls in this class would be reacting. Yes, AJ was really a ten year old boy at heart.
It seemed like a huffie boy had the same idea as her, but she couldn't not ask. "Dead people can't fart... can they, professor?" Or were magical dead people different? She thought this argument would be the argument that would start and she tried her best not to fully laugh. She could be immature too, it happened. “Well in a way, yes, bodies do pass gas after they have passed on. The gasses in your body release along with other bodily functions.” as gross as it was it was true.
Swooshing her wand towards the board behind her desk, the word Gastromancy formed. “Wonderful answers everyone. Gastromancy is what we will be studying today. I’d like to start with what some would call the darker side to it. It was related to dark magic at one time, because people felt communicating with the dead through their bodies was something that should be left alone. “ With that she walked away from her desk with a grin on her face, “Please stand up and back away from the desks for a moment.” Watching them all she waited for all to be standing before she moved her wand changing the room to be charmed as if they were standing in the middle of a cemetery. Tapping herself with her wand her comfy clothes transfigured into a black dress, Nessa wasn’t the only one that could put on a performance, hehe, Cassie was sure to learn some tricks from her best friend.
“Now imagine we are in 1625. People used Gastromancy to speak with the dead. Some felt it was to cast the demons and curses away, while others wanted and omen, basically they wanted to know what their future would be without that person. If disease took them the spouse was trying to make sure the same disease wouldn’t come over the rest of the family. If it was a killing, the spouse was most likely trying to find out who did it. There were many different reasons for doing this, but always the same outcomes.” She walked closer to a tombstone and then turned to face the class once more.
“Now I do have a few things for you to think about. The first is, people are buried six feet below ground. How could anyone hear the stomach noises from that far down? The second thing is what is the different noises that could happen and what do you think they would mean?” She paused a moment to let them think about this. Without warning she started to sniffle and pretend cry, dramatics were super fun! “Oh goodness me, it’s 1625 and my husband has just died a horrible death from disease.” She sniffled again, “Please help me, how can I find out if I am going to have the same fate? “ She tried to stay in character, but Nessa was better, she couldn’t help but grin. “If you were the Diviner going to do this, what steps would you do to get the answers I’m looking for? Take a few minutes and discuss this with each other.” She couldn’t wait to hear their steps and responses; this was so fun minus the creepy graveyard.
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