"Divining rod" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the old books, and then sent for a venerable old man, who came and brought his divining rod; but it was ...
— In Midsummer Days and Other Tales • August Strindberg
... Anodyne necklaces, and tied round the necks of children, to facilitate the growth of their teeth! add to this, that in Price's History of Cornwall, a book published about ten years ago, the Virga Divinatoria, or Divining Rod, has a degree of credit given to it. This rod is of hazle, or other light wood, and held horizontally in the hand, and is said to bow towards the ore whenever the Conjurer walks over a mine. A very few years ago, in France, and even in ...
— The Botanic Garden. Part II. - Containing The Loves of the Plants. A Poem. - With Philosophical Notes. • Erasmus Darwin
... divining rod!" groaned Rhoda. "That would tell us in what direction the water lay. We've been going south-east all the time, ...
— The Manor House School • Angela Brazil
... experiments of Chevreul on the "pendule explorateur," and on the divining rod, show that if we represent to ourselves a movement in a certain direction, the hand will finally execute this movement without our consciousness, and so will transmit it to the instrument. Table-turning is the realization of the expected movement by means of the ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park
... hundreds of cases of the so-called Divining Rod, and Jung Stilling became an early spiritualist and 'full-welling ...
— The Making of Religion • Andrew Lang |
