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Dusting herself off, Sylvie stood and walked back around to the table and stood behind it.
"There have been lots of explains of magical acts throughout history dating back to even perhaps the beginning of time, but lets focus more on the past few centuries now. We have touched on the Ancient Egyptians and the witch burnings, so what are other examples of things that have happen that would be thought to be caused by magic?"
Jimmy's hand went up. "Theres the Moai on Easter Island. Lots of traces of magic have been found around those, but its hard to investigate because the site holds a lot of interest for Muggle Archaeologists too and the Statute's gotta be protected and all. The part that is interesting is that magic at the Polynesian and Australasian sites are thought to have evolved separately from the African and European sites that most people are familiar with. Theres no evidence of wand use, for example, so they're looking into other ways that those people might have harnessed their magic. Like with gemstones. They reckon the Moai statues used to hold gemstones in the eye sockets, and that was one of the ways that magic was controlled. This is... I dunno, sometime between 1250 and 1500, which is a pretty big deal when you think about how comparatively civilized Wizarding Culture over here in Britain was around that period, I mean," Pshhh obviously the biggest indication of civilization, "We had
Quidditch, but we didn't even know about those people."
He tipped his head at Finn and then nudged his friend. "Crop circles were on account of the Mooncalf." He murmured quietly. So yeah. Finlay was right.