Chapter 121 Chapter Twenty-Five

How did Banuzhi ask Master Triba for advice? Abesdemon continued: "However, if you believe me, I can tell you that there is one more place to try before returning to our king's land. Just here, not far from Bouchard Island, there is a special Master Riba, you know how he predicts the future by means of astrology, geomancy, palmistry, physiognomy, and other similar arts. Let's ask him about you too, shall we?" Banurge replied: "I can't tell. But I know one thing. One day he was talking about astronomy and geography with the great king, while the servants of the palace were behind the door and in the corner of the stairs, molesting his wife because she He looks really good. If Triba knows everything about the sky and the earth, the past and the future, and everything can be seen in advance, then why can't he just see his wife being molested, and he doesn't know it at all? However, since you wish, we may as well go and see him. There is no harm in asking one more person."

The next day they came to Master Triba's house.Banuzhi gave him a wolf-skin robe, a gilded sword, a velvet scabbard, and fifty brand-new "celestial coins" ④, and then kindly told him about himself. Master Tribal immediately looked into his face, and said: "Your seal and appearance are like a tortoise, and you are a notorious big tortoise." Then, he looked carefully at Banuzhi's right hand and said: "Here, on Mount Jovis, is this phantom pattern that only the tortoises have." Then, he picked up the pen again, quickly drew several circles, connected them according to the formula of divination, and said:

"There is nothing more reliable. Once you get married, you have to be a turtle." After he finished speaking, he asked Banuzhi about his birthday and month, and Banuzhi told him, he immediately drew all his celestial palace diagrams, and then observed the foundation and shape of the diagrams from three aspects, and then sighed deeply. He took a breath and said: "I've already said that you'll be a turtle and you won't be able to escape; here I have new proof that you must be a turtle. Besides, your wife will beat you and steal you; because you In the seventh house ② the situation is not good ③, all of them are horns, like Ar-ies ④, Taurus ⑤, Capricornus, etc. Jovis ⑦ in the fourth house ⑥ is sluggish, forming a square with Saturn and Marguri. Your future It's going to be hard, my good old man."

① Triba: Refers to Henri Cornelius Agrippa, a Curonian medical scientist who wrote four volumes of The Mystery of Science and Philosophy of Divination. The original text of "Master" is Her in German. ② Use a pile of sand on the table to watch good and bad luck. ③ Refers to François I, Agrippa was the imperial physician of the Empress Dowager at that time. ④ "God coin": St. Michael's gold coin was cast on the face of Charles VI and VII. ① Latin: "Jupiter Hill", that is, a muscle raised under the index finger. ② That is, "marriage palace".

③ The original aspectz refers to the meridian distance between two planets, including "junction", "sixty degree distance", "ninety degree distance", "one hundred twenty degree distance" and "one hundred eighty degree distance" . ④ Latin: "Aries". ⑤ Latin: "Taurus Palace". ⑥ Namely "Family Palace". ⑦ Latin: "Jupiter". Panuge said: "Old bastard, you are a fool for telling you to have two malaria for four days! When the turtles in the world are all there, you will be the one who takes the lead. It's strange, why do my two fingers grow so long?" What about ringworm?"

As he spoke, he stretched out those two fingers to Master Tribal, and took the other three, exactly like two horns.He said to Abesdemon: "You see, like Aurus of Marcial, who is only interested in observing and studying other people's disasters and sufferings, and doesn't care about his wife and passengers. He himself is inferior to Irus, but he is arrogant and domineering. , more uncomfortable than seventeen devils. In a word, it is exactly what the ancients called those worthless low bones: πτωχαλαζζ γ④.Come on, forget about this poor madman, he should be tied up and let him talk nonsense with his own devils.I don't believe ghosts have dealings with such villains.He doesn't even understand the first sentence of philosophy, 'know yourself'⑤, and he thinks it's great when he sees a little scum in other people's eyes, but he can't see a thick stick blocking his own eyes⑥.This is a "nosy" ⑦ person described by Plutarch.It's really Lamia reborn. In other people's homes, in public places, and with everyone, her eyes are sharper than a cat's. When she comes to her own home, she is worse than a mole. She can't see anything, because when she returns home from the outside, The moving eyes were removed from the head like spectacles, and hid in a wooden shoe that hung behind the door. "

At this time, Master Triba picked up a tamarisk branch. "True," said Ebisdemon; "Nicander called this tree a prophecy tree." Master Triba said: "Would you like to see more clearly? I can use the method of fire vision, the method of wind vision praised by Aristophanes in "Clouds and Mist", the method of water vision, which was very famous in Assyria in the past. , and I will show you the water reflection method tested by Hermolaus Barbarus. With a basin of clear water, I can show you your future wife sleeping with two men." "Don't forget to take off your glasses when you look into my anus," Banurge said.

Master Triba went on: "There is also mirroring, with which the Roman Emperor Didius Julianus saw the future. No need for glasses; from the mirror of love you can follow It is equally clearly seen in the fountain of the temple of Minerva near Batras. The sieve method, the ancient Romans respected it very much, as long as a sieve and a pair of pliers, ghosts can be seen.The flour method, as taught by Theocritus in the Pharmaceutria, and the mixed flour method, in which oats are mixed with flour.For the bone block method, I have the equipment readily available.Cheese method, I have a special Permamon cheese, circle-view method, I make many circles here, and the insurance will fall on your left.Chest view, to tell you the truth, your breasts are not well-developed.To see the Dharma with incense, you only need to burn a little incense.The ventriloquist of Ferrara, Mrs. Jacoba Rodochina, has used it for a long time.The donkey head method, often used by the Germans, is to roast a donkey head on a very hot coal fire.Melting wax, let melt ① Marcial: satirical poet of the first century.

② Aurus: The person Marcial satirized, see the tenth volume of the seventh volume of "Satire Poems". ③ Irus: The old beggar who fought with Ulises in "Odyssey".See lines 1-116 of Book XVIII of the Odyssey. ④ Greek: "the airy beggar". ⑤ What Socrates often said. ⑥ See "New Testament? Matthew" Chapter VII Sections 3 to 5. ⑦ See the fifth and sixth lines of Chapter 2 of Plutarch's Peri Polypragmasines "On Strangeness", where there is the story of Lamia. ⑧ Nicander: Greek medical scientist in the fifteenth century, author of works on medicinal plants: "Plant Efficacy".

① Hermo Laus Barbarus: Venetian humanist in the 15th century, who translated Aristotle's works and commented on Plinius' works. ② Dideus Julianus: Roman emperor in the second century. For the story here, see Chapter 7 of the part of "Dideus Julianus" in "The Biography of Augustus". ③ Latin: "Pharmacology". The wax drops in the water, and you can see the image of your wife and her lovers.Smoke view method, put poppy seeds and sesame seeds in the coal stove ④; it looks great!The method of axe-viewing requires only an ax and a black stone to be placed in the fire⑤, which is what Homer used with Benelope's suitors!According to the oil method, there is oil and wax.Cloud Vision, you can see the beautiful image of your wife in the clouds.Ye Shifa, I have special sage here.The fig method is so effective!The fig leaves are wonderful!

The fish-sight method, praised and used by Tiresias and Polydamas of old, was fulfilled in the country of Lucien, in the sacred grove of Apollo, and in the ditch of Dina. .Pigs see the law, we can get a lot of pigs and give you the urine bubbles.The divination method in the book ③, which is as obvious as the beans in the cake on the eve of Epiphany.Enteroscopic method ④, the Roman emperor Heliocaballus ⑤ used it, of course it is not very comfortable, but you can bear it, anyway, you are destined to be a tortoise.There is also asking a female fortune teller to tell a fortune⑥, and the nomination method. What is your name? " Banuri said, "Go eat your shit!" "?. There is also the rooster method, I draw a very round circle, and under your supervision and watchful eye, I divide it into twenty-four grids, all the same size, and draw a letter in each grid, and on each letter Put a grain of wheat, and then put in a big rooster that has never been mated. I can guarantee that you will see that it puts the letters C, O, Q, S, E, R, A, ⑦ The grains of wheat are eaten, and when the Emperor Valens ⑧ was eager to know who the successor was, the miraculous rooster ate the grains of wheat on the letter Θ.Ε.Ο.△.9, which was equally effective. "There are also the method of sacrificing meat⑩, the method of sacrificing the intestines of animals, the method of flying birds, the method of singing birds, and the method of bird food falling to the ground①." Banuzhi said: "There is also the method of defecating!" "And the summoning of the dead, I can raise the newly dead, as Apollonius of Tyana did for Achilles, and as the medium did for Saul. He can tell us anything about the spell he performed, no more, no less, just as the dead man, at the call of Ericdo, prophesied to Pompeii the progress and result of the battle of Pharsalus. Otherwise , if you're as afraid of the dead as all turtles are, I'll just use revenant innuendo." Banuzhi said: "To hell with you, old madman! If you wear a pointed hat, go find an Albanian to fuck you⑤. Why don't you advise me to put an emerald⑥ or a wolf stone⑦ under my tongue What? Why don’t you let me grow the tongue of a swallow, the heart of a frog⑧? Or eat the heart and liver of a dragon, ④ to tell good or bad from the smoke, color and sound of the fire. ⑤ Heat up the axe, put a stone on the axe, and watch its reaction. ⑥ Benelope: The mythical wife of Ulises, who rejected her suitors for twenty years. ① Polydamas: The ancient Daesarian Hercules, who was crushed to death by a boulder. ② See Chapter 56 of the first volume of Divination by Cornelius Agrippa. ③ Open a book and guess good or bad from the text. ④ Use human intestines to calculate good and bad luck. ⑤ Heliocabalus: Roman emperor from 218 to 222. ⑥ Banurge has been tried at Ponzust. ⑦ The eight letters mean: "You will be a turtle". ⑧ Valens: Roman emperor from 364 to 378. ⑨ The abbreviation of Theodosius, Teodosius was the Roman emperor from 379 to 395, the original text is Greek. ⑩ Divination with sacrificial meat is the oldest divination method of the Romans. ① Let the bird food fall from the beak of the spirit bird to the ground, and judge the good or bad according to the situation of falling to the ground. See Chapter 2, Section 34 of Cicero's "On Divination". ② Apollonius once resurrected Achilles' concubine, see Chapter 16 of Volume IV of Philostratus' "The Life of Apollonius". ③ For the story, see "Old Testament? 1 Samuel" Chapter 28, Sections 7 to 14. ④ Ericdo: Warlock of Desaria. ⑤ Albanian soldiers wear pointed barrel hats. ⑥ It is said that holding a gem in your mouth can predict the future. ⑦ A stone cut out of a wolf's eye. From the cry of cranes and birds, like the people of ancient Arabia or Mesopotamia, to know my fate?Tell thirty devils to take you away!The tortoise, the horned one, the 'marana', the devil, the antichrist witch!Let's go back to the king.He wouldn't like us if he knew we'd been at the house of this darn thing in skirts.I really regret coming here, if the guy who used to blow air in my crotch can use his spittle to lick this old man's beard, I will give him a hundred 'noble' and fourteen ' Not Noble'②.Almighty God!He's driving me mad, mad, and his sorceries are sick of me!Tell the devil to take him away! You say amen③, let's go drink.For at least two days, no, maybe four days, I won't be able to eat. " ⑧ Both Democritus and Plinius said that if these two things were placed in the underwear of a sleeping woman, she could make her tell her secrets. ⑨ See Chapter 20 of the first volume of Philostratus' "The Life of Apollonius". ① "Noble": A rose gold coin minted by Edward III of England. ② The original text is roturiers, which means the least valuable money; "Noble" means "solemn, noble", so the author immediately created a name of the least valuable currency. ③ Latin: "Amen".