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"They're both made of metal." Earako stated, in her quiet whisper. Well... it was true, wasn't it? So maybe it wasn't the most magical of answers. And maybe it wasn't even what Raven was looking for. But the batling was, nonetheless, certain it was true. Kinda. She had a nagging feeling that chalices might come in non-metal forms but she was trying not to think about it at the moment.

The class was wearing on her. She'd carefully drawn and labeled each of the magical tools so far mentioned, little sketches embelished with hearts and stars. But despite the cheerfulness of the page, she was a bit less upbeat in outlook. She just wasn't good at this magic stuff. Book classes just made her feel stupid.

Ligeia was chewing on the end of his pencil in thought, trying to think of how they could be connected to one another passed their purposes. The shapes maybe they were similar? But at the same time not to much as one had legs and the other had the stem and the fact that both held things was purpose. He lowered his pencil from his teeth before he ended up with no eraser on the end of it and tapped it against his notes.

He was drawing a blank which was something that gratted on him a bit, magic was what he enjoyed most so to not know an answer was to the owl bothersome.

Ala shrank down in her chair at Raven's statement. This class was hard, that was for sure, but it was at least a little better than her battle classes. The teacher wasn't trying to kill her, here...

The koala girl thought for a moment on what tool might relate to what element. Finally, she softly spoke up. "A mortar and pestle would be related to earth...?"

"Wands could be earth?" Earako's voice held that note of questioning that showed she wasn't entirely sure of her answer. It was a note that seemed to be in her voice almost constantly in this class. "Because they're made of wood, and wood is earth."

She hesitated, staring down at her notes with a frown, as if she might pull the answers out of what she'd written through pure intimidation. Were wands made of wood? Or were they like chalices, which could apparently be made out of anything. Now Earako wasn't so sure about her initial guess. "Or umm... air. Because you wave them in the air." Yes, the girl was really reaching, now.

Ala frowned at the first statement, but after Raven finished, it seemed that the teacher hadn't heard her answer from earlier. Well, if everyone else was somewhat close... She took a breath to repeat her earlier answer, just louder. "A mortar and pestle would be related to earth...?" Possibly? Was it even a tool...? It wasn't on her list, but it was used in magic, right?

And they were even suggesting elements this time, more than Raven had asked for. She didn't know whether to be pleased that they were finally being reasonably confident students, or dismayed that their answers were still so dull. She still hadn't decided which to go for when she answered. "A mortar and pestle are essential tools for mixing ingrediants, yes, but they are not charged with a particular element. That does not make their use any less valid, however. As for candles, they are essential especially when setting up an altar, and a good way of intrucing fire to a spell without messy torches or the like."

Standing again, Raven went back to the blackboard and pulled down another chart. This one was simple, depicting a five pointed star inside a circle. "Does anyone know what this is?"

There were to many tools, to many elements, and other things that interplayed together as one. It was all like several hundred piece puzzles that they were expected to piece together in less than ten seconds. How fun. She had only read a little bit into some basics of magick, from some college professor's article in a Psychology Weekly Magazine. How it had ended up in there, was a good question, one she had no guess or answer to.

I remember seeing something about a broom, too, even if that is a little fantasy-ish. Sahra wasn't sure if she should say anything, now, after Raven had moved on in her topics. She decided to keep her mouth shut, and instead doodle down the new chart.

"Can't that also be called a pentacle?" She asked sheepishly, chewing on the end of her pen. She wasn't sure if she'd ever heard of a pentagram or not, but she knew was a pentacle was. A gorgeous five-pointed upright star surrounded by a circle. "Doesn't each point represent an element? Um, Earth, Fire, Water, Spirit and...Fire?" As she spoke each element, she held up one finger in front of her face, being sure that she didn't say one twice, or forget one. She wasn't all to familiar with the elements in a magick sense, so she could only hope she got them all down.

It seemed that a couple of her students had encountered the symbol before. Finally, they were making some progress. Pleased, Raven turned to face the two students who had ventured answers. "Both answers are correct, to a degree. While some scholars use the terms pentacle and pentagram interchangably, there is a slight difference. The term pentagram describes the five pointed star you see here, achieved by drawing five lines." As she spoke, she traced the shape with her pointer. "Pentacles are generally referred to as the shape of a pentagram, or five pointed star, encased in a circle." With that, she traced the circle on the outside as well.

"The five points of the pentagram indeed represent the different elements- Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and the Spirit, or Ether. And there is a difference between an upright pentagram and an inverted pentagram. Some believe the inverted pentagram is an evil, Satanic symbol. More commonly, it is used for banishing, and other spells of negation that are not necessarily evil. Knowing this, will anyone tell me whether or not the pentagram, or pentacle, is a magical tool?"