I just watched Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, where Ron Weasley accidentally makes himself barf up slugs. My question is, what’s the term for when a magician makes someone cough up things? You see this a lot in stories about witchcraft, such as in Witches of Eastwick or in the X-Files episode Sanguinarium. I know there’s a word for this, but I don’t remember what it is.
Vomitus malefactum!
UURRRRP!!!
Damn you, Jomo!
Regurgitation?
Disgusting?
postlimaxingestus?
I don’t know the technical term, but mages that are particularly good at it are prized for their slugging percentage.
Nitpick-- If you’re referring to Nurse Waite in that X-Files episode, she doesn’t cough up slugs. She coughs up straight pins.
I just have to say that that was a truly disturbing scene in the Harry Potter movie. I had just had a big meal, and that DIDN’T help me digest it!
May I suggest, in the special case of slugs: vomitus signorinum?
prestiregurgitation?
I think you’re not getting the point here. Let me use an obliviate charm to make you all forget I mentioned Ron barfing up slugs. I had two other perfectly good examples of what I was talking about, which was: What is the term for when a magician makes someone cough up anything?
Well, sorry. But you did mention slugs in the thread title.
I don’t think there is a term for a magician causing regurgitation. Even if it were possible, I don’t think it has happened so frequently that someone made up a name for it.
What makes you think there is a specific term for this?