Divination for Wizard Students
Lauren James
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Learn about the history of popular divination practices included in the Harry Potter series. Includes 15 types of divination, including astrology, tea leaf reading, palm reading, crystal gazing, and more!
Class experience
US Grade 4 - 7
Divination has been used in cultures around the world for millennia. Many of these types of divination have recently become popular with young people, thanks to some popular wizard books that feature divination as a class at wizard schools. But...what is divination, and what does it look like in the real world? In this class, we will examine fifteen types of divination through a historical lens. Where did these types of divination come from? How were they done in the past, and how does that...
4 lessons//4 Weeks
Week 1Lesson 1Divination for Wizard Students, Part 1- Introduction to Divination - Tessomancy (tea leaf reading) - Pyromancy (fire omens) - Dream Interpretation - Recording length: 46 minutes totalWeek 2Lesson 2Divination for Wizard Students, Part 2- Runes (answering questions with rune stones) - Ovomancy (predicting the future with egg white patterns) - Astrology (using celestial objects to make predictions) - Recording length: 65 minutes totalWeek 3Lesson 3Divination for Wizard Students, Part 3- Palmistry (palm reading) - Cartomancy (tarot cards) - Numerology, Arithmancy and Heptomology (using numbers to determine personality) - Recording length: 47 minutes totalWeek 4Lesson 4Divination for Wizard Students, Part 4- Crystal Gazing (seeing visions using a crystal ball) - Ornithomancy (predictions with birds) - Myomancy (predictions with rats and mice) - Ichthyomancy (predictions with fish) - Xylomancy (patterns with wood or sticks) - Catoptromancy (interpretations with mirror reflections) - More types of divination - Recording length: 50 minutes total
- What do people believe divination to be? - What types of divination are found in the wizard world books? - What is the history of each of these types of divination? - How (if at all) are these divination methods practiced in modern day?
This course takes a historical approach to divination. In this class, it is taught that divination cannot be proven by science. Students will be asked to respect others' beliefs in this class, but the approach will be a historical one. Please note that the instructor is not a believer of divination; this course is taught from a historical point of view.
Harry Potter (book series and movies) Divination and Human Nature: A Cognitive History of Intuition in Classical Antiquity by Peter T. Struck The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud The Secret of the Runes by Guido von List The Book of Runes by Ralph Blum The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination by Robert Place The Fated Sky: Astrology in History by Benson Bobrick The Roma: The History of the Romani People and the Controversial Persecutions of Them Across Europe by Charles River Editors and Bill Hare
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Completed by 25 learners
Ages: 9-14
