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“Selina made a good comparison, in saying elaeomancy is much like tasseomancy. Reading the designs or symbols that are made upon a certain action, whether it is draining a cup of tea or pouring oil onto the surface of a bowl of water,” she said then. A lot of the branches of Divination were interconnected anyhow. “Why do you think it is possible to have any symbols created, however vague they may be, by pouring oil onto water?” That was an entirely scientific question, but it was a valid one before they moved on to actually, possibly trying to see if they could do a reading or two. Understanding how things worked sometimes helped in understanding the magical properties, at least in her mind.
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What in the name of Hades was this woman going on about? See, this was why Sierra hated Divination. Most of the time, she didn't even understand what was being asked in the first place to even
try and come up with an answer. She gave Kurumi Hollingberry a little
look as she listened to the Gryffindor girl spout out what was, of course, a perfect sounding answer. Blahhh.
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SilverTiger [But then she turned to the others and gave them all a smile. Simon notwithstanding, they were making her feel proud that they were able to come up with answers. Even if Eino’s reasoning was rather amusing. She couldn’t say she’d ever heard it described in quite that way before. “Oil and water don’t mix,” she agreed. “The oil floats on the surface of the water, and then the motion of the pouring makes it move into random shapes that can be read.” It was fairly straightforward, although the question then remained if people thought it was in fact similar to previously discussed forms of symbol-reading in Divination. “Would you think that one could really compare the symbols seen in elaeomancy to those that could be found in tasseomancy?,” she went on to ask. Obviously oil would create looser symbols than tea leaves might, but indirectly it was all still similar. And she wanted to know their thoughts before she set out to let them try a bit of the former anyway.[/COLOR]
"...but would the shapes made in the oil and water shift from time to time?" she asked, her hand in the air. Divination with oil and water sounded confusing. She could just picture herself seeing a
cup one second and then a
table the next.
"It seems like it'd be more difficult to get a true reading with the oil and water." If there was any such thing as a
true reading, and she seriously doubted there was.