How To Use rhabdomancy In A Sentence
- If it does, revoke, O student, your shrill _eheu_ for the Greekless and untrousered savage of the canoe, suppress your feelings, and go steadily into rhabdomancy with several divining-rods, in search of the Pierian spring which must surely exist somewhere among the guttural districts of the Ojibbeway tongue. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861
- [FN#98] We have not heard the last of this old "dowsing rod": the latest form of rhabdomancy is an electrical-rod invented in the Arabian nights. English
- Rhabdomantic: "related to rhabdomancy" ( "divination by means of a rod or wand; spec. a technique for searching for underground water, minerals, etc.; dowsing"). Orange Crate Art
- I refer to such organic forces as are popularly summed up under the words clairvoyance, mesmerism, rhabdomancy, animal magnetism, physical spiritualism. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America
- This deceptio visus, or product of rhabdomancy, easily effected by an adept of the The Valley of Decision
- 98 We have not heard the last of this old “dowsing rod”: the latest form of rhabdomancy is an electrical-rod invented in the United The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- It is not water, but treasures which they profess to find by some hidden kind of rhabdomancy. Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers
- But our village friend, though perhaps constructively right in his philosophizing, was certainly very defective in his acquaintance with the time-honoured art of rhabdomancy. Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology
- If it does, revoke, O student, your shrill _eheu_ for the Greekless and untrousered savage of the canoe, suppress your feelings, and go steadily into rhabdomancy with several divining-rods, in search of the Pierian spring which must surely exist somewhere among the guttural districts of the Ojibbeway tongue. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861
- Agreeably to the doctrines of rhabdomancy, formerly in vogue, and at the present moment not entirely discarded, a twig, usually of witchhazle, borne over the surface of the ground, indicates the presence of water to which it is instinctively alive, by stirring in the hand. Margaret