Gastronomy
The Gastromantie is a genus of ceremonial magic , which also Goetia called. It is partly related to the Hydromantie and Leconomantie and is described in two variants. It is understood as prophecy through ventriloquism itself or through prophecies using a bulbous vessel. Depending on the vessel, the Lekanomantie (Greek word lekanon means bowl, bowl) was about the use of a bowl and Gastromantie (in Greek gastra for a bulbous vessel) about the use of a bulbous vessel, in both cases the future should be predicted.
Gastromantie is to be distinguished from ventriloquism , a fortune-telling technique using ventriloquism .
origin
Like Hydromantie, this variant is said to have come from the Persians and been practiced by the Assyrians ; furthermore Numa Pompilius and after him the philosopher Pythagoras are said to have kept it in the highest form and made use of it.
Gastromantic Techniques
In both variants, water is used as an aid , they differ in that one hears the answers in the gastromanty, while in the leconomanty an optical answer is given. Both types of divination are in many cases subject to deceptive intent. Ventriloquism does not mean the art of ventriloquism at markets or in variety shows , but rather the people who used ventriloquism as fortune-telling are said to have been possessed by divine demons in their bodies. Nonetheless, there were cheaters and charlatans among these who interpreted stomach noises as voices. The manty of ventriloquism was already known in ancient times , because at that time ventriloquists acted who fell into a trance and predicted the future. Weis figures saying Sibyllen gave their predictions even by the hospitable and romantic manner known.
In the applied technique of gastronomy with the help of bulbous bottles or vessels, the fortune-tellers used the vessel as a sound body for their voices, which were mystically changed by these vessels . Burning candles are placed around the vessel, which are reflected in the glass container. Children or pregnant women who observed the water and conveyed the desired statements were used as a medium .
In the case of the variants, other aids were sometimes used, for example coins, gold or silver pieces thrown into the water should convey information about the saint or saints who were responsible for future events.
literature
- Ulrike Müller-Kaspar (Ed.), The Great Handbook of Superstition - From Eel to Cypress, page 218, tosa published by Uebereuter Verlag, Vienna, 2007
- Kurt Benesch, Magic of the Renaissance, page 55, Fourier Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1985, ISBN 3-921695-91-0
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gastronomy. In: Bettina Krönung, Gotteswerk und Teufels Wirken: Dream, Vision, Imagination in Early Byzantine Monastic Literature , Volume 45 of Millennium Studies / Millennium Studies, page 137 (note 670), Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2014, ISBN 3110334399 (online) [1]
- ↑ The different types of divination. In: Kurt Benesch, Magic of the Renaissance , page 389 ff, Fourier Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1985, ISBN 3-921695-91-0