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SPOILER!!: Individual responses Quote:
Originally Posted by Callie 
She glanced over at the skeleton for a long moment.* Palmistry was the obvious answer.* You read the lines in the palm of a person's hand to read their fortune.* But...that was too obvious an answer.* "I don't know what it's called, but isn't there one that supposedly reads the bumps of your head slash skull to tell your fortune?"
Quinn was the first to offer up an answer and she actually went for one of the unobvious answers. Flashing a glance over at the eagle, Professor Vance responded kindly. "Oh, you’re thinking of Metoscopy I think Quinn, good. That’s what the method is called when we interpret the bumps on our heads to tell the future." Quote:
Originally Posted by DuckyLinJi "The palm of the hand. The lines can be read to tell someones future" or was it also past and present? "Wait, or is it fortune?" Divination was highly confusing. "You’re one the right track Dorian," Laurel said with a nod of the head. "In Palmistry as the method is called we do study the lines on our palms to interpret our futures and no fortune isn’t related you might be mixing it up with the fortune cookie you just ate?" Perhaps. It was hard to follow how everyone thought sometimes. Quote:
Originally Posted by Anna Banana Maddie didn't know much about Divination, but she'd read up on the basics. It gave her just a little bit of background knowledge to at least answer questions, even if she'd never really practiced Divination. "What about Phys...io...gnomy?" she asked, raising her hand. She had no idea how to actually say the word. "It's when you use a person's face for Divination!" She knew Madeline preferred to be called Maddie but it had felt natural to call her by her whole name. But onto her answer to the question. "Quite correct Madeline. Physiognomy is when you interpret a person’s face to read their immediate future. It’s an interesting method." Quote:
Originally Posted by Dokimoto Had Kye noticed that she had said evening?* Nope.* That's how tired she was.* She hoped she didn't accidentally offend her favorite Head of House.* Sleepily, Kye raised her hand.* "Uhm.. there's Oculomancy, which would be used on the eyes of course..."* Actually, one of the ones she would want to see in action would be Pedomancy.* Trying to interpret through a footprint?* You had to have a very open mind to work in some of those fields, at least in Kye's silent opinion "Good Kye, Oculomancy is definitely interpretation of the future via the eyes." Laurel said with a smile over at the snake senior girl. "It’s actually quite a peculiar method since a diviner scrys by reading the eyes reflections of another person to interpret the future." A complicated method. Quote:
Originally Posted by Birchwoodmom She timidly raised her hand. "Professor, would you count the brain, or maybe the inner ear would be better?* I remember reading about how a long time ago they used to spread letters out and spin a person around in the middle, making them nice a dizzy.* Then, whatever letters they landed on were read. *I think it was gryromancy?"* Her answer ended in more of a question than a firm statement, but she was trying. "Good question Emmalyn. Maybe I wasn’t totally clear on that. But the brain does count and so does the inner ear. Both exterior and interior body parts count." Laurel responded thoughtfully as she looked over kindly at the badger. "Gyromancy is correct. It does have to do with spinning round and round until your super dizzy and then make a prediction from the letters a person lands on. It’s not a method I favour though since I usually get sick to my stomach when I get dizzy." Quote:
Originally Posted by Felixir Glancing at the skeleton in the corner, Abra hesitated for a moment. His answer involved a body part that wasn't actually on the skeleton at all, but... maybe it still counted as an example. He raised his hand. "There's one for skin. We had that one lesson where we looked at blemishes and moles and stuff that one time," he pointed out, casually skirting around the fact that he couldn't even hope to remember its name. OWL year, who? [font]"Good Abraham that you thought of Moleosophy! It shows that you’ve been attentive in class and has a good memory." Laurel responded with a beam in the lions direction. "Moleosophy does as you said interpret the blemishes and moles that we have on our skins to interpret the future." Very nice. She was impressed.[/font] Quote:
Originally Posted by SilverTiger Even the younger students were coming up with ideas, though, and it made her feel awkward. Until she wracked her brain for previous lessons, like it seemed Abra did. Gryffindor solidarity and all, and she’d finally raised her hand. “Onychomancy uses interpretation of fingernails for divination.” That was something they’d discussed last term, if she was remembering right. Casting her gaze in Stasyas direction as the lioness followed after her house peer offering up another method that they had recently had studied in class. "Correct Stasya, Onychomancy does indeed read our fingernails to tell the future and as you may recall where the symbols on the nails are located tells how soon in the future something will happen." Laurel said with a nod. And you could tell about a person’s health too. Quote:
Originally Posted by Cassirin It brought Chloe so much pleasure that the professor had laughed at her joke, and she grinned merrily as he introduced the lesson.* What... were some body parts they could use in divination?* Merlin knew why he was asking THEM.* Wasn't that why they were here?
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"I think... hair?* Pili... mancy."* Maybe made up, but it seemed right.* Sounded right.* Something about hair, but was it hair on her head, or collected and spread around, or burned and smelly? Turning her gaze to Chloe she smiled encouragingly "You’re almost said it correctly Chloe, just put the two words together. The method for reading hair strands is called Pilimancy. It’s a pretty rare practice." And one that Professor Vance didn’t use very often if ever when scrying.
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Originally Posted by lazykitty Ronan did want to earn points for the house, though. His thoughts turned briefly to the muggle world, and an answer came to him. "Hands are used with an Ouija board too." But maybe that wasn't a real form of Divination...? Though a lot of muggles warned others away from them so... Head boy Ronan spoke up next, giving an answer that Laurel wasn’t expecting. When she answered she was thoughtful but kind."It is true that you use your hands when utilizing the Ouija board but it wasn’t exactly an answer that I was looking for since I wanted you to name a divination method that involves a specific body part like hair or eyes or similar. Good try though Ronan." Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie
But as for methods? All the ones he could think of that hadn't been already mentioned involved animal body parts or bones, and he didn't want to think about THOSE...and another had to do with lips...and that one just made his insides all wiggle wormy and like he wanted to go all demiguise in the lesson.
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"There is...er...Spasmatomancy..." Which he only remembered because he liked the sound of the name and, well, muscle spasms were a very really occurrence in his life.
Derfael raised his hand next with an answer that she hadn’t been expecting up but Laurel answered with a kind nod to the prefect. "Yes, Spasmatomancy is a real divination where you observe the often involuntary muscle spasms of the human body." Not a widely practiced practice as she was aware. Quote:
Originally Posted by debpetrisor
*Slowly and silently munching on the second cookie that he'd cracked to avoid making any crunch-crunch noise, he listened to the others as they answered, nothing truly coming to mind. However, he glanced over at Sir Bones, as he'd named the skeleton in his head, and he did get an idea. Hesitantly raising his hand, he said, "Is there a type of divination that uses bones?" Maybe that's exactly what they'd be doing?
Looking over at Daniel she responded with a smile "Yes Daniel, there is most definitely a divination method that uses bones it’s called Osteomancy. You can tell a lot about person from interpreting their bones." It was a wide spread practice that even muggles used but they called it something totally different. Quote:
Originally Posted by Ginevra Daisy thought about her answer. So many great answers had already been given. She raised her hand and answered, "I think there's one called Podomancy that uses feet for divination purposes." It was very hard for Laurel to contain her excitement when Daisy gave her answer for certain reasons. Controlling her features she said cheerily. "Good Daisy, the divination that reads the lines of the feet is called Podomancy." She wanted to say more but chose not to. Quote:
Originally Posted by hjhm
Hmm... Caleb raised his hand and gave an answer "some people use our feet for divination readings." he said "I think it's called Podomancy..?" He is not sure if he is entirely correct but that seemed* right. His mother did that earlier this summer.
A minute or two later Caleb’s hand shot up and he gave an identical answer to Daisy’s. Looking over at the snake youth Professor Vance nodded "Yes our feet can be used for readings Caleb and its called Podomancy or Solistry depending on who you speak to." It was odd though, wasn’t it that two students in a row gave the same answer but they were nevertheless correct. Quote:
Originally Posted by Optimist.Prime
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When Daniel asked about bones all Beth could do was grin, grin and nod her head.* ”osteomancy…or ossomancy” she was just giving the name she’d read about in her textbook, and honestly it was an interesting thing. Still, looking over to Professor Vance she raised her hand (again) and added ”if I remember correctly there is one featuring the human form – somatomancy I believe?...but my favorite just even by name alone is rumpology or natimancy…divination using the buttocks, it just seems funny and fun” and the name was great.
Anabeth was a source of information it seemed as she counted off not one but five different divination methods. Amused Laurel grinned "You’re right Anabeth, reading your buttocks like we’d do in rumpology does sound funny and it’s hard you should know. I’ve tried it a couple of times. Observing what is behind you isn’t easy if you don’t have help."And it wasn’t to just anyone that you showed your naked buttocks.
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He'd been expecting this to be another lesson spent lost in daydreams while gazing at Professor Vance...* But thanks to a certain Hufflepuff this was a Divination question he could actually answer.
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Maxton thrust an arm in the air. "There's the one where you listen to the rumblings in your tummy.... Gastromancy?" The Slytherin then grinned sleepily before adding, "I like Gastromancy..."[/QUOTE] When Maxton thrust his arm up to answer Professor Vance was secretly pleased because it wasn’t often that he did speak up. "Good Maxton, gastromancy is correct. Listening to the rumblings of your tummy can be quite useful in the everyday life to know when your hungry for instance." Quote:
Originally Posted by VRSCIKA *
Hmm, there was an interesting form she'd read about in one of her mother's novels. "Fingers...the phalanges have always been of interest to study and some cultures believed them to have a magic all their own. That is where Dactylomancy formed. The procedure is to tie a string to one's finger and place a ring on the string. Then while contemplating a question, one is to interpret the sway of the ring as being a yes, no or maybe answer."
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The snakette preferred avoiding other peoples fingers, but it was a weird thought. * Eria answered next, and she surprised Laurel by showing that she had been reading her textbook, and hadn’t been lying when they’d last spoken at all. Happy she smiled over at Eria. "That’s correct Eria, Dactylomancy is one of the many forms that study fingernails and fingers of people. Fingers are a very important part of our bodies."* Quote:
Originally Posted by Kolyander Pulling out her textbook she tried to flip through some of the pages hoping to find what she was looking for. "I'm not sure what it's called and I can't locate it in the textbook... but I think there's a method that uses teeth?" she offered raising her hand in the air first. Looking over at the young first year Professor Vance said encouragingly "Good Rylee, there is a method for reading your teeth. Its called Odontomancy. It's quite a wide spread and popular practice.
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Originally Posted by PhoenixRising
"There's a different type of hand divination, called Chirognomy, which is the practice of reading someone's personality based off the shape of their hand and fingers. It actually is more common for the shape to be focused on rather than the lines on the hand." Rather interesting, considering when they did palmistry, it was on the lines.
When she now cast a glance in Skylars direction she saw how dead tired the captain looked and that probably explained her odd greeting earlier. Maybe she didn’t need to consult Penny. But anyway the answer she gave was interesting and Professor Vance responded with a smile. "Interesting Skylar that you brought up that method of hand divination. Chirognomy I actually sometimes use more myself for interpreting a persons personality than Palmistry just because it focuses more on the shape of the whole hand." When the last student had quieted down and she had responded accordingly Laurel clapped her hands to get attention. "Thank you everyone for your insightful answers. You've all showed to me that you've got a good idea of what parts of the body, which is basically the whole body that can be used for various readings." She paused her for a moment to make the dummy in the corner disappear as well as erase the message on the blackboard.
Continuing she revealed with joy. "Today our prime focus is going to be on our feet just like Caleb and Daisy mentioned. Yes you heard me right FEET! So everyone please take off your shoes and socks!" She gave the student's a moment to do as instructed and Professor. Vance took the time to take off her own slippers to stand barefoot on the stone floor. It felt nice. "Now look down at your feet and then at the feet of your nearest tablemates. No two pair of feet are the same. Each pair of feet is as unique to that person as your lovely personalities are."
"Feet or as its more commonly called Podomancy or Solistry is a method that has been practiced since ancient times and is very popular in China. Podomancy is the interpretation of our feet and foot soles for shapes, sizes and lines to predict our futures. Podomancy is often mixed up with Palmistry can anyone give a guess as to why? Or what some similarities between Palmistry and Podomancy you can think of?"
OOC: Question 2 is up! Just give some reasons or a guess as to why your students thinks Podomancy can be mixed up with Palmistry or some similiarities between the two methods that your student can think of. Correct, wrong and quirky answers are most welcome and accepted! We'll be moving on in 24 hours @ approximately 7 pm Friday June 1st.
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