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Originally Posted by sarahlooo  Natalie smiled at Cam as he scooted over and offered some heating charms. "Yes, please," she replied in a whisper as class started. Well, yes please, as long as he could do it quietly. Natalie wasn't great at magic anyway, so she probably wouldn't be able to do it without causing some attention. Yes he could do so quietly.
While he hadn't quite mastered to make them completely nonverbal, he COULD in fact simply whisper the incantation. Which he did, while softly running his wand along her arms and down her back. Anywhere else? Legs? Feet? He figured it couldn't hurt (he doubted she'd complain about being TOO warm) so he ran his wand down her legs too. "Better?" He could do more but she'd have to tell him where else she was cold. Text Cut: Prof Quote:
Originally Posted by Nordic Witch Assured that no more students wished to give answers Laurel proceeded to give some information. "The form of Divination that uses fingernails is called Onychomancy. Onychmos means fingernail in Greek like Dorian mentioned and has been used and practiced since ancient times. Believe or not our fingernails and fingernail clippings are associated with many superstitions and are used in many magical workings like for making sure a spell affects the right person and in healing and potions. Professor Noble and Healer Mcmillan could tell you more about that if you ared interested." Here Laurel paused to gather her thoughts and for allowing note taking.
"Before we start interpreting our own nails by length, shape, colour, condition and marking we need to get them ready for doing just that and this is where the supplies on your tables will come in. You all need to give your fingernails a good wash in the water found in the cauldrons so that they are super clean and then you are going to need to massage in generous amounts of the scented oils found in the bottles and see if you can make out any markings or colour specks on your nails by reflecting the sunlight onto your nails with the help of the hand mirrors." As she spoke Laurel had gone over to one of the tables up front and had washed and massaged in the oils on her own hands to make her fingernails shine and then used the mirror to reflect the sunlight onto her fingernails and saw how a white spot appeared on her ring finger, a new love, could it mean Aaron? "For those of you who are wearing nail polish please remove it with the aid of the scouring charm. I caution you all to not sniff in the strong oils too much it might make your head spin. Now get to work!"
OOC: Mini activity is up! As instructed have your student wash their hands in the cauldron, massage in the oils and see if you can see any markings or colour specks by reflecting the sunlight with the hand mirror onto your students nails. Don't interpret anything yet. Just take note. You can do this in one or as many posts as you wish. Have fun ! Be Creative! You get 3 days to complete the mini activity until wednesday @ approx 7pm when I will move on. This lesson though.
To be honest, Cameron still wasn't sure what to make of Divination in general, both as a concept and as a lesson. But today's topic seemed to be particularly strange. No offense. Fingernails. He always wondered just WHO had noticed that first. Who would think of predicting the future based on their fingernails?Who drew that connection? It seemed rather...arbitrary in a way.
ANYWAY, after taking down a few notes, Cameron started washing his hands. Which were already very clean, just FYI. He always made sure his hands were clean and proper looking. That included no dirt under fingernails. Still here he was cleaning them just in case before rubbing scented oils on them. Why were they scented? Wasn't this just about the oil? Hmm. |