![]() Other parts of the world also have a tradition of ventriloquism for ritual or religious purposes historically there have been adepts of this practice among the Zulu, Inuit, and Māori peoples. One of the most successful early gastromancers was Eurykles, a prophet at Athens gastromancers came to be referred to as Euryklides in his honour. One of the earliest recorded group of prophets to use this technique was the Pythia, the priestess at the temple of Apollo in Delphi, who acted as the conduit for the Delphic Oracle. The ventriloquist would then interpret the sounds, as they were thought to be able to speak to the dead, as well as foretell the future. ![]() ![]() The noises produced by the stomach were thought to be the voices of the unliving, who took up residence in the stomach of the ventriloquist. The Greeks called this gastromancy ( Greek: εγγαστριμυθία). The name comes from the Latin for 'to speak from the stomach: venter (belly) and loqui (speak). Originally, ventriloquism was a religious practice. Newspaper article on Gef, the talking mongoose, claiming it involved ventriloquism by Voirrey Irving ![]()
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