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A Y-shaped twig or rod, or two L-shaped ones, called dowsing rods or divining rods are normally used, and the motion of these are said to reveal the location of the target material. The motion of such dowsing devices is generally attributed to random movement, or to the ideomotor phenomenon , [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] a psychological response where a ...
Both Joseph Smith Jr. and his father used divining rods. [26] One of Joseph Smith's early revelations, now canonized in the Doctrine and Covenants, stated that Oliver Cowdery had the power to use a divining rod. Cowdery was told that he had the gift of "working with the sprout, behold it hath told you things.
divining → see dowsing; djubed [citation needed] → see scrying; dōbutsu uranai: by animal horoscope (Japanese dōbutsu, ' animal ' + uranai, ' prognostication ') domino divination → see cleromancy; dowsing (also divining, water witching): by a divining rod (of unknown origin) dracomancy / ˈ d r æ k oʊ m æ n s i /: by dragons (Greek ...
Rhabdomancy is a divination technique which involves the use of any rod, wand, staff, stick, arrow, or the like. One method of rhabdomancy was setting a number of staffs on end and observing where they fall, to divine the direction one should travel, or to find answers to certain questions.
The namegiver of Eichendorff’s poem is the wooden dowsing rod, an instrument used to locate ground water, oil, buried metals or ores, gemstones and many other objects and materials without the use of scientific apparatus. [10] Dowsing is also seen as divining; especially in reference to interpretation of results. [11]
Numerology, which utilizes methods of divining 'birth numbers' from significant numbers such as birth date, may also reveal character traits of individuals. [53] Individuals can also assess their own and others' personalities according to physical characteristics. Blood type remains a popular form of divination from physiology.
Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...
Divining rod, two rods believed by some to find water in a practice known as dowsing; Fishing rod, a tool used to catch fish, like a long pole with a hook on the end; Lightning rod, a conductor on top of a building to protect the building in the event of lightning by taking the charge harmlessly to earth; Measuring rod, a kind of ruler