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*Nordic Witch* · 09-12-2017, 05:46 PM

SPOILER!!: Various creature replies

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Originally Posted by Lady of Light

EHeh.. and she was right. Divination involving creatures, interesting. After pausing for a moment, she raised a hand and answered the question.
"I've heard about Ichthyomancy. It involves fish, doesn't it?" Etta was a little doubtful but she'd given a try anyway. She listened to the other give their answers, wondering and kind of hoping that her answer was right.

Next to speak up was Etta. Looking over at the badger prefect Laurel nodded "Yes, your correct Etta Ichthyomancy involves fish and specifically you observe and interpret the behaviour of fish."

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Originally Posted by Fira

Ummmm...
He had to say something though, so he would impress the professor. When he remembered something, Hunter raised a hand excitedly.
"Professor! I know one of them professor!! Dogs!!" yup "Dogs, professor"
But...dogs werent magical, right?
That was embarrassing. Yet still he had a point to defend his statement.
"The dogs at home can bark and let us know if something is approaching."That was still future, right?

Was that Ryder, no? He had the wrong coloured robes so it must be his twin. Listening to Hunter she smiled and responded. "Yes, dogs count Hunter! They aren't magical per say but we can still study their behaviour and barks for predictions of the future and also the present."

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Originally Posted by Zellanna

Kyle frowned. He knew of using the bones and livers of the animals for divination, but he didn't know anything about animal behavior for divination. So, dead animals were apparently more his thing than live creatures. What could possibly be used? He thought about it a little longer. "Maybe observing a hippogriff, professor. They are highly intuitive and would probably act differently if certain circumstances arose. Like, if one got spooked, then something bad is going to happen."

Turning her gaze to Kyle next Laurel beamed. "Yes good, you are on the right track Kyle. There is a divination method for observing hippogriffs behaviour it's called Hippomancy. You can read more about it in your textbooks. Hippogriffs are indeed very intuitive and intelligent creatures."

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Originally Posted by Moonhare

Still, class was class and you don't get Sorted into Ravenclaw for nothing. Maisie raised her hand. "Centaurs know a lot about Divination, Professor.
You could look at their knowledge and draw from their techniques. I'm not sure they would count as animals, though."Her heart thumped. She was a timid girl and hated the thought that she might have firstly got the answer wrong and secondly offended a proud creature like the centaur. Not that there was a centaur in class. Her thoughts were racing. That was always a bad sign. Her breathing would be next. "May I have some water, please Professor?"

Turning to Maisie next she nodded kindly "Yes, good guess Maisie! Centaurs can count in this case since I'm just scanning your knowledge of different divination methods involving creatures and centaurs have their own divination methods which is really an own subject."

Furrowing her brow's at the request for a glass of water Laurel shook her head and then proceeded with her wand to make a glass of water appear. Offering it to the young eagle she said "Here you are Maisie! Is there something I should know?"

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Originally Posted by Kimothy

Vivian didn't know much examples, to be honest, and she looked a little panicked as other students kept on adding more to the list. She needed to act fast. Think, Fairfield, think! Making a list on her head on what she knew and what was already mentioned, she sifted some examples out and immediately raised her hand. Sorry, this was survival of the fittest. "Myomancy, Professor," the blond shared. "It involves mice and their behavior." Which was a little weird because this Slytherin wouldn't want to handle with mice, but they only needed to share a type of animal divination... so there's that.

"Good Vivian, Myomancy fits since you interpret the behaviour of mice or all creatures for that matter that fall under the rodent species. They are quite intelligent creatures mice." Laurel said with a kind glance in the snake prefect's direction.

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Originally Posted by Steelsheen

He wasnt sure, but being in a barn and hearing the creatures sounding off from time to time got him to remember this detail his mom would talk about during their equine excursions. Up goes the hand "Professor theres the divination by horses called hippomancy. That divination particularly takes note of their neighing and stomping."

Looking over at the lion prefect Laurel beamed "Yes, that is true Tenacious. There is are divination method called hippomancy that studies and interprets all aspects of horses behaviour from neighing to stomping."

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Originally Posted by Daydreamer11

When she was called on, Shay began to explain her answer. "Arachnomancy is a form of Divination that has to do with studying spiders......how they look and how they behave." She certainly hoped that the lesson had nothing to do with that particular topic. There were so many animals that she would rather work with. Not that she was afraid of spiders. She wasn't, but Shay could not deny that they were creepy and not on her top ten list of favorite critters.

Shay offered up her answer next and Laurel said with a slight shiver. "Yes that's correct, Archanomancy is the study of spiders from how they look, their sizes and their general behaviour. Spider divination is though not one of my favourite methods though since I'm not very fond of spiders." And she could admit that. She was only human after all. She had preferences too.

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Originally Posted by Watson

Though all hope was not lost for this Gryffindor (as of right now) as she had read something about cats in her textbook. She raised her hand to offer a response."I forgot the exact name of this method, Professor, but this Divination method has to do with cats and analyzing their movements and jumps in order to predict the weather.." Now what was it called again? "I think it's something along the lines of ailromancy? .... Ailuromancy was what it was... I believe."

"You remembered correctly Olivia, good! The method involving cats is called Ailuromancy and from cats movements and jumps you can make especially weather forecast for the coming days." Laurel responded with a smile to the lioness.

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Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo

The question asked was expected. By now, Jessa was accustomed to Professors making them guess before telling them what they should have already known from their curriculum guides. Suffice to say the young girl had learned by now to simply roll with it.
"There's also Felidomancy, Professor. Deals with diving the future through the observation of cats and their movement." Which she wasn't buying for even a second but never let it be said that Jessa Cambridge never read her Divination textbook.
There were a whole bunch of branches that dealt with animals actually. Vague, this question was vague.

"Good Jessa, Felidomancy does deal with interpreting the future by observing the behaviour of cats and their movements. The method is also sometimes called Zoomancy or Theriomancy." Laurel said with a cheery beam in the eagle girl's direction.

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Originally Posted by griffin

"I've heard that there's a type of divination called myrmomancy that involves looking at ant hills or termite mounds and watching the behavior of the ants or termites." Ants were interesting to watch actually. They had very organized patterns of ants marching in line when you looked closely. Isa wasn't so sure if you could actually divine anything from ants though.

Eyes flashing over to Isa Laurel responded with a kind smile "Yes that's correct Isa! The method that interprets termite and ant behaviour is indeed called myrmomancy but can also be named theriomancy or zoomancy. Ants are quite intelligent and organized creatures. The stacks they build are amazingly crafted. "

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Originally Posted by Weasley174

Thomas raised his hand. "eh maybe a kangaroo could just tell your fortune for you." Yeah he had no idea about what divination was and he didn't want to be left out so yeah he decided to just make something up.

Looking over at Thomas next Laurel said kindly. "Kangaroo's aren't magical creatures but if they were then yes Thomas their behaviour like all other creatures would be able to be study and interpreted for future readings."

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Originally Posted by PhoenixRising

And then the Professor began talking and yes, of course it was about creatures. Why else would she move the lesson from the towers to the barns? But what was all this talk about poop and secretions and guts? Surely that wasn't an actual THING, was it? Honestly, her classmates were weird. Of course Jessa did something with dead people, to which Skylar wasn't even sure exactly, so yea.... weird classmates.
"Apantomancy," Skylar suggested, raising her hand. "It deals with a chance encounter with animals." Although technically this wasn't chance, since it was a lesson, but it was a method that dealt with animals.

Turning her head to Skylar she responded "Yes, good suggestion Skylar. It isn't one of the most common methods used but Apantomancy does deal with interpreting the significance of chance animal encounters. It is from this method the muggle superstition about black cats crossing your path comes from."

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Originally Posted by lazykitty

It took him a few minutes to recover, but once he did, he remembered something. "Sometimes people study animals' actions in order to tell when there's going to be bad weather or even an earthquake. There's even a day built around that idea in America called Groundhog Day. They watch this groundhog called Punxsutawney Phil come out of his burrow and if he sees his shadow, it means there will be six more weeks of winter." Which he had always thought was silly. Wouldn't there be all kinds factors that would come into play? Like the sun's position in the sky, or whether it was cloudy that day?

Ronan brought up a day americans celebrated that she hadn't heard about before. Looking over at the lion Laurel nodded encourigingly "Yes that is true Ronan you can study creaturess actions and behaviour to get forewarnings, forecasts or predictions of bad weather or even earthquakes since creatures are more closely intuned to the weather an earth that we humans are. I shall look up Groundhog Day, is it a day your family celebrates?"

SPOILER!!: Poop and urine student replies

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Originally Posted by ArianaBlack

When the first question was posed Zoryn just ???? um no. She didn't go around reading about divination in her spare time so she didn't actually know what kinds of divination methods involved barn animals.
But when it was her turn, the Gryffindor still spoke. "Sometimes you can tell if an animal is sick by their poop," true story and it worked with humans too fyi. "Does that count?"

Zoryn looked put down for a bit but it was good to see that she bounced back and gave an answer to the question. It showed she listened. They couldn't unfortunately get sleep ins just when they wanted. Smiling kindly Laurel responded. "Yes that counts Zoryn. Examining an animal's poop can tell a creature healer what disease ails the animal. There is also a divination method called Scatomancy where you can study your future by examining animal poop for signs of what's to come."

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Originally Posted by Tegz

One method? Well. Char stuck her hand up.
"Something to do with poop, maybe? Um... scat that is. There's tons of that where ever there are tons of animals after all. Some people say its lucky to step in it or be pooped on but I think that's people just making the best of a bad situation really."
Not that she minded but something else would be more fun. She didn't think it would be anything that hurt any of the creatures because otherwise she was sure they wouldn't be allowed to be down here.

Turning her gaze to Charlotte she smiled brightly "Yes Scat or more specific Scatomancy deals with animal poop and interpretation of it for future readings. According to some muggle supersitions it can be lucky to step in poop or even be pooped on, but that is up to each person and if you believe or not. What do you believe Charlotte? Would it be lucky to walk in poop?"

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Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie

"Urimancy!" he squeaked gleefully. "Studying the SECRETIONS of creatures...sometimes people too...like the color...or flow pattern...or like...in the shapes it makes when it hits the ground or when you catch it in a bowl! Some do it by TASTE too...kinda like I did in my dorm to identify these neat little bags of dung left there on the first night back. OH! But also in like..bubbles found in the secretions too ... if I remember correctly. Big bubbles were good...and I guess like...this form of divination was kinda the start to gender identification in pregnancies...OH OH OH! Are we going to try and guess the gender of fetal creatures by watching their mom's pee!?"

Derfael threw her some unexpected answers for being only in his teens. Looking over at him a she first shook her head "No, we are not going to guess the gender of fetal creatures by watching their mom's pee today Derfael. We're doing something different and we'd need Professor Wayland's permission to do that and I haven't gotten that from him. Uroscopy does though look at and study the secretions of animals for colour, flow pattern and so on since it can give healer a hint for what disease ails a patient or for future readings."

SPOILER!!: Omens student replies

SPOILER!!: bird student replies

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Originally Posted by Saz Hale

Kimi thought and thought and raised his hand and said "Phoenix feathers professor" Kimi had no idea whether it was right or not but it was worth a guess

Turning her gaze to Kimi she smiled encouragingly "Good guess Kimi! You can actually scry with feathers it's a type divination called Geomancy."

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Originally Posted by Lissy Longbottom

She raised her hand. "Alectryomancy is the use of roosters to read the future. Usually you spread some grain or something and watch them eat it and interpret it that way," she explained. She didn't know the details beyond that, though.

Flashing her gaze over to the senior badger Laurel responded with a smile "Good Scarlett! In Alectryomancy you can in one version study how roosters eat grain that you've spread out over letters and interpret from where they eat how the future is going to be. It helps if you've asked a yes/no question for the future. Makes it easier to interpret."

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Originally Posted by Optimist.Prime

”Aletromancy?” she finally blurted out the moment she had been called on. ”a divination form using birds…usually roosters and crowing?” she shrugged nad grinned at her.
Gosh.

Looking over at Melbourne next Laurel smiled "Yes, Alectromancy uses birds for their future readings and mainly roosters. They interpret how the rooster behave and one think they look at is how the birds crown."

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Originally Posted by MeredithRodneyMckay

OH! She knew this one. Or at least she thought she did. What was it she'd been reading the other day, in the mound of books she'd piled high in the library? Something to do with birds. Dahlia scrunched her face up and gently pounded her fist into her forehead, hoping it would help her remember.
"Oh!" She waved her hand, waiting until given the okay, before saying her answer. "Ornithomancy? I think that's one? With birds. I think."

"Good Dahlia, Ornitomancy involves birds. It studies the behaviour, flight, cry and song of birds." Laurel said with a big beam in the badger girl's direction.

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Originally Posted by Ginevra

Daisy vaguely remembered one form of animal related Divination that she had read about so she raised her hand. "What about Alectryomancy? I think it uses a white rooster and some wheat."

Smiling kindly over at Daisy she nodded "Yes Alectryomancy is a creature divination that uses birds and it interprets how the white rooster pecks wheat or grain."

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Originally Posted by NifflerFan

She raised her hand and answered: "I think there's one that uses, umm, bird guts. I hope we're not doing that one, Professor."'Cause if they were going to be hurting creatures today, she was gonna do something about it. What, she had no idea, but she'd think of something. Emmeline shot Stasya a concerned look from her mat. She had a feeling that if it came to that, she'd have a partner maybe.

Smiling reassuringly over at Emmeline she shook her head "I think you mean Scatomancy Emmeline which uses and studies guts of animals. We won't be trying that out today. I promise."

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Originally Posted by SilverTiger

.The lesson was starting, though, so her attention went to Professor Vance again. So they were doing creature divination. Yay for being right, or sort of right. She really hoped they weren’t doing the kind Emmeline had mentioned, or even the kind Derf said because ew. That and she was very anti-hurting animals so there was going to be a protest if they were going to be told to do that. She did raise her hand, though. “What about augury? Not the creature, but they do predict rain so maybe the creature too. But isn’t it also predicting things by looking at bird formations?” That didn’t involve hurting anyone.

Stasya brought up the last guess. Looking over at the young lioness Laurel beamed "The augury creature has its own method that is called augury that predicts while looking at bird formations is called Orniscopy."

Very glad for all the answers Laurel adressed the whole class as she used her wand to make a large chest of omniculars appear at her feet. "Thank you all for your guesses. The majority of them were very good. There are as many methods that study the behaviour of creatures as there are creatures and many fall under the method terms of Zoomancy or Theriomancy."

"Today though we are going to be focusing mainly on bird divination or Ornithomancy as mentioned by Dahlia and Stasya that was a very common practice in ancient Rome. Those that practiced and observed the flight, songs, cries and behaviour of birds in ancient Rome were called augurs.

Before we study Ornithomancy closer I want you all preform a little task which is to take a pair of omniculars from the chest by my feet and go out into the pastures and use your omniculars to study the birds that fly high in the sky and try to label at least 4 bird flight patterns that you also sketch/drawn on a piece of parchment. Most birds fly in a straight line and and flap their wings constantly see if you can spot some other ones with the use of your textbook"

OOC: Mini activity time! You have 3 days to complete the activity until friday @ around 7 pm before i move on.

What you need to do in one or more posts is to:
Rp going out into the pastures (within the lesson thread) and with your omniculars observe and label 4 bird flight patterns that you also sketch/drawn on a piece of parchment eg in a spoiler tag stating 'The bird flew in criss cross motion and i label that as____' and so on.

If you want to do the bird flight sketch/drawing in paint or another graphic program you can. Just keep the graphic within SS weight and height limits and post it with your rp post.

If you aren't graphically skilled then that's okay just post your notes where you label the patterns you've and do the rp. Have fun with this! You can partner if you want to! Any questions ask in class or vm me!

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Nordic Witch Grindylow Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: [GMT + 1] Posts: 14,082 Hogwarts RPG Name: Rose Snakebark Gryffindor Fifth Year Hogwarts RPG Name: JT Forsfelle Slytherin Third Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Ariadne Rose Hufflepuff Third Year Ministry Department Head: Violet Fawley Ecological Protection x3	Swedishfish Girl! Madame Librarian! Jess's Soul Sister! Sweetest Swede! SPOILER!!: Various creature replies Quote: Originally Posted by Lady of Light EHeh.. and she was right. Divination involving creatures, interesting. After pausing for a moment, she raised a hand and answered the question. "I've heard about Ichthyomancy. It involves fish, doesn't it?" Etta was a little doubtful but she'd given a try anyway. She listened to the other give their answers, wondering and kind of hoping that her answer was right. Next to speak up was Etta. Looking over at the badger prefect Laurel nodded "Yes, your correct Etta Ichthyomancy involves fish and specifically you observe and interpret the behaviour of fish." Quote: Originally Posted by Fira Ummmm... He had to say something though, so he would impress the professor. When he remembered something, Hunter raised a hand excitedly. "Professor! I know one of them professor!! Dogs!!" yup "Dogs, professor" But...dogs werent magical, right? That was embarrassing. Yet still he had a point to defend his statement. "The dogs at home can bark and let us know if something is approaching."That was still future, right? Was that Ryder, no? He had the wrong coloured robes so it must be his twin. Listening to Hunter she smiled and responded. "Yes, dogs count Hunter! They aren't magical per say but we can still study their behaviour and barks for predictions of the future and also the present." Quote: Originally Posted by Zellanna Kyle frowned. He knew of using the bones and livers of the animals for divination, but he didn't know anything about animal behavior for divination. So, dead animals were apparently more his thing than live creatures. What could possibly be used? He thought about it a little longer. "Maybe observing a hippogriff, professor. They are highly intuitive and would probably act differently if certain circumstances arose. Like, if one got spooked, then something bad is going to happen." Turning her gaze to Kyle next Laurel beamed. "Yes good, you are on the right track Kyle. There is a divination method for observing hippogriffs behaviour it's called Hippomancy. You can read more about it in your textbooks. Hippogriffs are indeed very intuitive and intelligent creatures." Quote: Originally Posted by Moonhare Still, class was class and you don't get Sorted into Ravenclaw for nothing. Maisie raised her hand. "Centaurs know a lot about Divination, Professor. You could look at their knowledge and draw from their techniques. I'm not sure they would count as animals, though."Her heart thumped. She was a timid girl and hated the thought that she might have firstly got the answer wrong and secondly offended a proud creature like the centaur. Not that there was a centaur in class. Her thoughts were racing. That was always a bad sign. Her breathing would be next. "May I have some water, please Professor?" Turning to Maisie next she nodded kindly "Yes, good guess Maisie! Centaurs can count in this case since I'm just scanning your knowledge of different divination methods involving creatures and centaurs have their own divination methods which is really an own subject." Furrowing her brow's at the request for a glass of water Laurel shook her head and then proceeded with her wand to make a glass of water appear. Offering it to the young eagle she said "Here you are Maisie! Is there something I should know?" Quote: Originally Posted by Kimothy Vivian didn't know much examples, to be honest, and she looked a little panicked as other students kept on adding more to the list. She needed to act fast. Think, Fairfield, think! Making a list on her head on what she knew and what was already mentioned, she sifted some examples out and immediately raised her hand. Sorry, this was survival of the fittest. "Myomancy, Professor," the blond shared. "It involves mice and their behavior." Which was a little weird because this Slytherin wouldn't want to handle with mice, but they only needed to share a type of animal divination... so there's that. "Good Vivian, Myomancy fits since you interpret the behaviour of mice or all creatures for that matter that fall under the rodent species. They are quite intelligent creatures mice." Laurel said with a kind glance in the snake prefect's direction. Quote: Originally Posted by Steelsheen He wasnt sure, but being in a barn and hearing the creatures sounding off from time to time got him to remember this detail his mom would talk about during their equine excursions. Up goes the hand "Professor theres the divination by horses called hippomancy. That divination particularly takes note of their neighing and stomping." Looking over at the lion prefect Laurel beamed "Yes, that is true Tenacious. There is are divination method called hippomancy that studies and interprets all aspects of horses behaviour from neighing to stomping." Quote: Originally Posted by Daydreamer11 When she was called on, Shay began to explain her answer. "Arachnomancy is a form of Divination that has to do with studying spiders......how they look and how they behave." She certainly hoped that the lesson had nothing to do with that particular topic. There were so many animals that she would rather work with. Not that she was afraid of spiders. She wasn't, but Shay could not deny that they were creepy and not on her top ten list of favorite critters. Shay offered up her answer next and Laurel said with a slight shiver. "Yes that's correct, Archanomancy is the study of spiders from how they look, their sizes and their general behaviour. Spider divination is though not one of my favourite methods though since I'm not very fond of spiders." And she could admit that. She was only human after all. She had preferences too. Quote: Originally Posted by Watson Though all hope was not lost for this Gryffindor (as of right now) as she had read something about cats in her textbook. She raised her hand to offer a response."I forgot the exact name of this method, Professor, but this Divination method has to do with cats and analyzing their movements and jumps in order to predict the weather.." Now what was it called again? "I think it's something along the lines of ailromancy? .... Ailuromancy was what it was... I believe." "You remembered correctly Olivia, good! The method involving cats is called Ailuromancy and from cats movements and jumps you can make especially weather forecast for the coming days." Laurel responded with a smile to the lioness. Quote: Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo The question asked was expected. By now, Jessa was accustomed to Professors making them guess before telling them what they should have already known from their curriculum guides. Suffice to say the young girl had learned by now to simply roll with it. "There's also Felidomancy, Professor. Deals with diving the future through the observation of cats and their movement." Which she wasn't buying for even a second but never let it be said that Jessa Cambridge never read her Divination textbook. There were a whole bunch of branches that dealt with animals actually. Vague, this question was vague. "Good Jessa, Felidomancy does deal with interpreting the future by observing the behaviour of cats and their movements. The method is also sometimes called Zoomancy or Theriomancy." Laurel said with a cheery beam in the eagle girl's direction. Quote: Originally Posted by griffin "I've heard that there's a type of divination called myrmomancy that involves looking at ant hills or termite mounds and watching the behavior of the ants or termites." Ants were interesting to watch actually. They had very organized patterns of ants marching in line when you looked closely. Isa wasn't so sure if you could actually divine anything from ants though. Eyes flashing over to Isa Laurel responded with a kind smile "Yes that's correct Isa! The method that interprets termite and ant behaviour is indeed called myrmomancy but can also be named theriomancy or zoomancy. Ants are quite intelligent and organized creatures. The stacks they build are amazingly crafted. " Quote: Originally Posted by Weasley174 Thomas raised his hand. "eh maybe a kangaroo could just tell your fortune for you." Yeah he had no idea about what divination was and he didn't want to be left out so yeah he decided to just make something up. Looking over at Thomas next Laurel said kindly. "Kangaroo's aren't magical creatures but if they were then yes Thomas their behaviour like all other creatures would be able to be study and interpreted for future readings." Quote: Originally Posted by PhoenixRising And then the Professor began talking and yes, of course it was about creatures. Why else would she move the lesson from the towers to the barns? But what was all this talk about poop and secretions and guts? Surely that wasn't an actual THING, was it? Honestly, her classmates were weird. Of course Jessa did something with dead people, to which Skylar wasn't even sure exactly, so yea.... weird classmates. "Apantomancy," Skylar suggested, raising her hand. "It deals with a chance encounter with animals." Although technically this wasn't chance, since it was a lesson, but it was a method that dealt with animals. Turning her head to Skylar she responded "Yes, good suggestion Skylar. It isn't one of the most common methods used but Apantomancy does deal with interpreting the significance of chance animal encounters. It is from this method the muggle superstition about black cats crossing your path comes from." Quote: Originally Posted by lazykitty It took him a few minutes to recover, but once he did, he remembered something. "Sometimes people study animals' actions in order to tell when there's going to be bad weather or even an earthquake. There's even a day built around that idea in America called Groundhog Day. They watch this groundhog called Punxsutawney Phil come out of his burrow and if he sees his shadow, it means there will be six more weeks of winter." Which he had always thought was silly. Wouldn't there be all kinds factors that would come into play? Like the sun's position in the sky, or whether it was cloudy that day? Ronan brought up a day americans celebrated that she hadn't heard about before. Looking over at the lion Laurel nodded encourigingly "Yes that is true Ronan you can study creaturess actions and behaviour to get forewarnings, forecasts or predictions of bad weather or even earthquakes since creatures are more closely intuned to the weather an earth that we humans are. I shall look up Groundhog Day, is it a day your family celebrates?" SPOILER!!: Poop and urine student replies [COLOR="darkolivegreen"] Quote: Originally Posted by ArianaBlack When the first question was posed Zoryn just ???? um no. She didn't go around reading about divination in her spare time so she didn't actually know what kinds of divination methods involved barn animals. But when it was her turn, the Gryffindor still spoke. "Sometimes you can tell if an animal is sick by their poop," true story and it worked with humans too fyi. "Does that count?" Zoryn looked put down for a bit but it was good to see that she bounced back and gave an answer to the question. It showed she listened. They couldn't unfortunately get sleep ins just when they wanted. Smiling kindly Laurel responded. "Yes that counts Zoryn. Examining an animal's poop can tell a creature healer what disease ails the animal. There is also a divination method called Scatomancy where you can study your future by examining animal poop for signs of what's to come." Quote: Originally Posted by Tegz One method? Well. Char stuck her hand up. "Something to do with poop, maybe? Um... scat that is. There's tons of that where ever there are tons of animals after all. Some people say its lucky to step in it or be pooped on but I think that's people just making the best of a bad situation really." Not that she minded but something else would be more fun. She didn't think it would be anything that hurt any of the creatures because otherwise she was sure they wouldn't be allowed to be down here. Turning her gaze to Charlotte she smiled brightly "Yes Scat or more specific Scatomancy deals with animal poop and interpretation of it for future readings. According to some muggle supersitions it can be lucky to step in poop or even be pooped on, but that is up to each person and if you believe or not. What do you believe Charlotte? Would it be lucky to walk in poop?" Quote: Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie "Urimancy!" he squeaked gleefully. "Studying the SECRETIONS of creatures...sometimes people too...like the color...or flow pattern...or like...in the shapes it makes when it hits the ground or when you catch it in a bowl! Some do it by TASTE too...kinda like I did in my dorm to identify these neat little bags of dung left there on the first night back. OH! But also in like..bubbles found in the secretions too ... if I remember correctly. Big bubbles were good...and I guess like...this form of divination was kinda the start to gender identification in pregnancies...OH OH OH! Are we going to try and guess the gender of fetal creatures by watching their mom's pee!?" Derfael threw her some unexpected answers for being only in his teens. Looking over at him a she first shook her head "No, we are not going to guess the gender of fetal creatures by watching their mom's pee today Derfael. We're doing something different and we'd need Professor Wayland's permission to do that and I haven't gotten that from him. Uroscopy does though look at and study the secretions of animals for colour, flow pattern and so on since it can give healer a hint for what disease ails a patient or for future readings." SPOILER!!: Omens student replies Omens Quote: Originally Posted by natekka . She'd read about numerous methods of divination that involved animals, so she answered the Professor's question with the first one that came to mind. "Certain animals are sometimes considered to be omens. Buzzards, for example.... If you see a buzzard flying, some people" - not herself - "might consider it an omen of..." She paused, trying to remember what she'd read, "of danger or strife." Rhea followed up with her answer and Laurel responded thoughtfully "Yes, you are correct Rhea some animals can sometimes be considered omens of death, dangers or strife like if you were to get to see the grim in your tea cup which speaks of danger and sometimes even death." Quote: Originally Posted by Anna Banana She was going to try, though! Maddie sat up on her heels and did a little rock back and forth before raising her hand. "What about an animal stampede? Sometimes when a ton of animals are all running in one direction at once, it means something is chasing them," she said. She'd seen that in a few muggle movies. One involved dinosaurs, and when ALLLL of the animals started running, the people started running, too. Shifting her gaze to Maddie she nooded encouragingly "An animal stampede can definitley have something to do with divination but more as an omen for say bad weather to come than an actual method." SPOILER!!: bird student replies Quote: Originally Posted by Saz Hale Kimi thought and thought and raised his hand and said "Phoenix feathers professor" Kimi had no idea whether it was right or not but it was worth a guess Turning her gaze to Kimi she smiled encouragingly "Good guess Kimi! You can actually scry with feathers it's a type divination called Geomancy." Quote: Originally Posted by Lissy Longbottom She raised her hand. "Alectryomancy is the use of roosters to read the future. Usually you spread some grain or something and watch them eat it and interpret it that way," she explained. She didn't know the details beyond that, though. Flashing her gaze over to the senior badger Laurel responded with a smile "Good Scarlett! In Alectryomancy you can in one version study how roosters eat grain that you've spread out over letters and interpret from where they eat how the future is going to be. It helps if you've asked a yes/no question for the future. Makes it easier to interpret." Quote: Originally Posted by Optimist.Prime ”Aletromancy?” she finally blurted out the moment she had been called on. ”a divination form using birds…usually roosters and crowing?” she shrugged nad grinned at her. Gosh. Looking over at Melbourne next Laurel smiled "Yes, Alectromancy uses birds for their future readings and mainly roosters. They interpret how the rooster behave and one think they look at is how the birds crown." Quote: Originally Posted by MeredithRodneyMckay OH! She knew this one. Or at least she thought she did. What was it she'd been reading the other day, in the mound of books she'd piled high in the library? Something to do with birds. Dahlia scrunched her face up and gently pounded her fist into her forehead, hoping it would help her remember. "Oh!" She waved her hand, waiting until given the okay, before saying her answer. "Ornithomancy? I think that's one? With birds. I think." "Good Dahlia, Ornitomancy involves birds. It studies the behaviour, flight, cry and song of birds." Laurel said with a big beam in the badger girl's direction. Quote: Originally Posted by Ginevra Daisy vaguely remembered one form of animal related Divination that she had read about so she raised her hand. "What about Alectryomancy? I think it uses a white rooster and some wheat." Smiling kindly over at Daisy she nodded "Yes Alectryomancy is a creature divination that uses birds and it interprets how the white rooster pecks wheat or grain." Quote: Originally Posted by NifflerFan She raised her hand and answered: "I think there's one that uses, umm, bird guts. I hope we're not doing that one, Professor."'Cause if they were going to be hurting creatures today, she was gonna do something about it. What, she had no idea, but she'd think of something. Emmeline shot Stasya a concerned look from her mat. She had a feeling that if it came to that, she'd have a partner maybe. Smiling reassuringly over at Emmeline she shook her head "I think you mean Scatomancy Emmeline which uses and studies guts of animals. We won't be trying that out today. I promise." Quote: Originally Posted by SilverTiger .The lesson was starting, though, so her attention went to Professor Vance again. So they were doing creature divination. Yay for being right, or sort of right. She really hoped they weren’t doing the kind Emmeline had mentioned, or even the kind Derf said because ew. That and she was very anti-hurting animals so there was going to be a protest if they were going to be told to do that. She did raise her hand, though. “What about augury? Not the creature, but they do predict rain so maybe the creature too. But isn’t it also predicting things by looking at bird formations?” That didn’t involve hurting anyone. Stasya brought up the last guess. Looking over at the young lioness Laurel beamed "The augury creature has its own method that is called augury that predicts while looking at bird formations is called Orniscopy." Very glad for all the answers Laurel adressed the whole class as she used her wand to make a large chest of omniculars appear at her feet. "Thank you all for your guesses. The majority of them were very good. There are as many methods that study the behaviour of creatures as there are creatures and many fall under the method terms of Zoomancy or Theriomancy." "Today though we are going to be focusing mainly on bird divination or Ornithomancy as mentioned by Dahlia and Stasya that was a very common practice in ancient Rome. Those that practiced and observed the flight, songs, cries and behaviour of birds in ancient Rome were called augurs. Before we study Ornithomancy closer I want you all preform a little task which is to take a pair of omniculars from the chest by my feet and go out into the pastures and use your omniculars to study the birds that fly high in the sky and try to label at least 4 bird flight patterns that you also sketch/drawn on a piece of parchment. Most birds fly in a straight line and and flap their wings constantly see if you can spot some other ones with the use of your textbook" OOC: Mini activity time! You have 3 days to complete the activity until friday @ around 7 pm before i move on. What you need to do in one or more posts is to: Rp going out into the pastures (within the lesson thread) and with your omniculars observe and label 4 bird flight patterns that you also sketch/drawn on a piece of parchment eg in a spoiler tag stating 'The bird flew in criss cross motion and i label that as____' and so on. If you want to do the bird flight sketch/drawing in paint or another graphic program you can. Just keep the graphic within SS weight and height limits and post it with your rp post. If you aren't graphically skilled then that's okay just post your notes where you label the patterns you've and do the rp. Have fun with this! You can partner if you want to! Any questions ask in class or vm me! __________________ Last edited by Nordic Witch; 09-14-2017 at 10:19 AM. Reason: removed the first bird textbook link...