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Rhabdomancy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rhabdomancy is a type of divination in which a hazel rod is used to trace the presence of minerals or metals underground. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rhabdomancy   (62 words)

Probert Encyclopaedia: General Information (Rh-Rz) Rhabdomancy is divination by use of a stick or wand, such as a divining-rod used to discover mineral ores or water. www.probertencyclopaedia.com /A12.HTM   (1984 words)

Rhabdomancy Rhabdomancy was denounced as the work of the devil at various points in history, but it has been used almost continuously in Europe since the Middle Ages (practical benefits outweigh the maledictions of the Church every time). Rhabdomancy, more commonly known as dowsing, is the art of finding resources -- and humans -- using a divining rod. Upon the publication of this detective story, judicial rhabdomancy became all the rage in France. www.wwpn.org /Pages/rhabdomancy.htm   (491 words)

Grand Design LRP - Player Handbook - Rhabdomancy Rhabdomancy is the name given to the art of summoning the spirits of the Otherworld and bargaining with them for power or favour. Rhabdomancy may affect the mortal mind, like Astral Magic, or the mortal physique like Philosophy but generally does so in a less controlled way and sometimes with unwanted side effects. It is possible for Rhabdomancy to invest a target individual with knowledge or skills they would not normally posses where those skills are appealing to the patron family. www.granddesign.org.uk /rules/rhabdomancy.htm   (1662 words)

Unknown Armies When Rhabdomancy was strong, there was no penalty, and charge generation was much easier - 3 hours for a minor charge, and a personally important item of some kind for a significant charge, and a historically important item for a major charge. All Rhabdomancy rolls are made with a -45% penalty, and Rhabdomancy charges are much, much harder to gain now than they ever were. These days, the school of rhabdomancy is dead, but once it was a grand form of magic. www.unknown-armies.com /content_comments.php?id=P1806_0_3_0   (1470 words)

Rhabdomancy There are a number of forms of rhabdomancy, the most common form being water discovery. ag2kh.home.att.net /rhabdoma.htm   (15 words)

James Randi Educational Foundation — An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural More strictly speaking, rhabdomancy is an art of throwing sticks, rods, or arrows on the ground to interpret the plans of nature. www.randi.org /encyclopedia/rhabdomancy.html   (98 words)

* Rhabdomancy - (Esoteric): Definition In fact, Rhabdomancy really has nothing to do with divination, but is an occult means of seeking out hidden things... A term for divining by rods, derived from the Greek word meaning "a rod" and "." The practice was alluded to by Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682),... www.bestknows.com /esoteric/rhabdomancy.html   (57 words)

Karmweb UK - Dowsing Lesson 1 Typically, the use of rhabdomancy was the domain of the augur, shaman, or the local magical practitioner. There is a logic to this – rhabdomancy requires the simplest of tools: at its most basic level, all the diviner needs is a stick taken from the ground, so long as it has the right balance and shape. The tradition of the stereotypical witch and wizard using their wands for rhabdomancy is common dowsing lore – and a perfectly logical application of the art with a well-adapted tool. dreamwolf.net /karmaweb/lessons/dowsing/dowsing-1.htm   (5723 words)

Rhabdomancy Rhabdomancy is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness. Rhabdomancy, Pagan, Paganism, Wicca, Wiccan, Witchcraft, Witch, Pagan Archives Paganism Dictionary, Wicca Dictionary, Wiccan Dictionary, Witchcraft Dictionary, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Mysticism Archives, Mystic, Mystic Archives, Mysticism Dictionary - R, Mysticism Glossary - R, Mysticism Terms - R Rhabdomancy: Pagan Paganism Dictionary II on Water Witching www.experiencefestival.com /rhabdomancy   (428 words)

The Psy-Center - Encyclopedia Rhabdomancy is the divination using a stick or wand and was the forerunner of the divining rod. Which gift of spirit listed below would you MOST want to have? www.psy-center.com /encyclopedia-139.html   (90 words)

divination (fortune telling) rhabdomancy (using the divining rod or magic wand) skepdic.com /divinati.html   (610 words)

Bohemian Rhabdomancy "Rhabdomancy," she countered simply, in response to Roberto’s accusation that she was missing out on the more educational aspects of Bohemia. Lord Roberto sighed, fearing that his experience of rhabdomancy was by no means ended, but just then his reveries were interrupted by a commotion from the returning Flo, Monty and Le.. This was in no small measure due to the stamina of his wife, the Lady Ecaterina, who was spending the duration pursuing her own cultural pursuits. www.mudsharks.org /borab2.htm   (1320 words)

Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd edition: Wizard class: Spells: School of Rhabdomancy spell modifications Locate creature: While this spell is seldom used by rhabdomancers because the third-level spell lesser rhabdomancy, usually suffices, it does have useful applications. Some previously introduced spells from other schools of magic which also belong to the School of Rhabdomancy have modified effects when cast by a rhabdomancer with the aid of his divining rod. If a rhabdomancer acquires a standard version of one of the following spells (on a scroll, in a captured spellbook or through other means), the minor adjustments detailed below are automatically applied to reflect his casting style. www.saintsilver.com /zayix/new_site/pages/character_creation/Spells/rhabdomancymod.html   (690 words)

Curious Myths of the Middle Ages: Some who practised rhabdomancy sustained this species of rod between their thumbs and forefingers; or else the thumb and forefingers were closed, and the rod rested on their points; or again it reposed on the flat of the hand, or on the back, the hand being held vertically and the rod held in equilibrium. We find rhabdomancy a popular form of divination among the Greeks, and also among the Romans. A third species of divining rod consisted in a straight staff cut in two: one extremity of the one half was hollowed out, the other half was sharpened at the end, and this end was inserted in the hollow, and the pointed stick rotated in the cavity. www.commonplacebook.com /fiction/myths/ch03   (6181 words)

Belomancy - Acadine Archive Divination by arrows is the same in principle as Rhabdomancy. This was to throw a certain number of arrows into the air, and the direction in which the arrow inclined as it fell, pointed out the course to be taken by the inquirer. This page was last modified 12:52, 18 Apr 2005. www.acadine.org /index.php/Belomancy   (111 words)

H2G2 The ancient art of Rhabdomancy, as dowsing was originally known, has been practised since time immemorial. The Chinese art of feng shui, that is, sacred geomancy or building, evolved from a theory linking geomancy with rhabdomancy. Ancient Egyptians and Babylonians dowsed using split reeds, and the early Chinese Emperor Kwang Sung (circa 2200 BCE) was known to have dowsed. www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/pda/A3373175?s_id=2   (190 words)

Divination - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It can be qualitative (such as shapes, proximities, etc.) Dowsing (a form of rhabdomancy) developed from this type of divination. The Romans in classical times used Etruscan methods of augury such as hepatoscopy (actually a form of extispicy). Divination that ranks a set of given possibilities. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Divination   (903 words)

bellairsia : index Able to read the mind of his parishioners until he lost his clairvoyance due to a blow to the head; took up rhabdomancy, or rod divination. Hence Runcet's later interest in rhabdomancy, or rod divination. Runcet's account of an angel finishing his church cleaning was told in his letter to Clotilde, the Man Nun of Ouvrage; see Letters to an Astigmatic Stigmatic, published by Gasogene Books. www.bellairsia.com /r/r_runcet_hamish.html   (773 words)

Notes , and rhabdomancy is mentioned by S. Cyril of Alexandria. These were drawn from a vessel, or, it might be, cast into the air, the position in which they fell being carefully noted. www.malleusmaleficarum.org /part_III/notes/n3001.html   (135 words)

DIVINING - ROD - LoveToKnow Article on DIVINING - ROD Rhabdomancy, or the art of using a divining-rod for discovering I DIVINING- ROD - LoveToKnow Article on DIVINING- ROD www.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DI/DIVINING_ROD.htm   (612 words)

Occult Definitions/Phenomenon with Biblical References There were various modes of divination: by reading omens, dreams, the use of the lot, hydromancy (foretelling from the appearance of water), astrology, rhabdomancy (use of the divining rod, Hos 4:12; Ezek 8:17), hepatoscopy (divination by an examination of the liver of animals), necromancy or consulting the dead, and the sacrifice of children by burning. Used in the KJV to refer to the spirit of a dead person that mediums claimed they could summon for consultation (Deut 18:11). www.harvardhouse.com /prophetictech/astrology/definitions.htm   (545 words)

Define Rhabdomancy : powered by In Dictionary (InDicitonary.com) rhabdomancy n : searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod [syn: dowse, dowsing] "rhabdomancy" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48" Use the form below to search our dictionaries by entering a word you wish to define. www.indictionary.com /define/Rhabdomancy   (266 words)

Word Study This would prohibit cartomancy (divination by card laying) ornithomancy (study of the activity of birds to foretell future); studying the arrangements of dregs in a cup, the interpretation of dreams, rhabdomancy and crystallomancy *using mirror or crystal ball, or pond water) to see into the future. DIVINATION- (hebrews qosem; greek = puthen) which is knowledge by direct interrogation of the spirits. members.cox.net /hughdelong2/studynotes/bibl50.htm   (768 words)

THE DIVINE ART OF DOWSING Dowsing has been called Divining, Dactylomancy, Radesthesia, Water Witching, Doodlebugging and Rhabdomancy (divining by a rod), to name a few. The French used the word -sourciers' to describe dowsers as -finders of sources.' Many people associate the term -dowsing' with someone locating an underground water source by walking about in a field or pasture holding a forked stick between both hands. Most dowsers believe they are able not only to find anything anywhere but also to obtain information about the past and present. www.spiritseeker.com /aug-sept/dunlap.htm   (1269 words)

Wishing Upon A Star If you tell fortunes by casting sticks or rods, or if you seek out water or underground ores using a rod or a stick, then you practice rhabdomancy. At things worsened, city leaders would expand their efforts and begin to burn heretics and the mad, but that's another story altogether. Seeking out water or ore with a stick is also known as dowsing. www.angelfire.com /ma2/wishing/oct3199.html   (676 words)

Queen of the bee Jessy correctly spelled "rhabdomancy" to secure her victory, then rushed to hug Daniel Hwang, her 8-year-old brother and spelling coach. Lucky shirt, ‘rhabdomancy’ send student back to D.C. By MEGAN MEANS of the Tribune’s staff Jessy Hwang of Jefferson Junior High School won the bee and will compete in May at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. Copyright © 2005 The Columbia Daily Tribune. www.showmenews.com /2005/Mar/20050311News002.asp   (529 words)

Rhabdomancy This was the Grecian method of rhabdomancy which Saint Jerome took as being the same as the method alluded to in the above passage from Hosea and in Ezekiel XXI:21, 22, were it is thought "arrows" might have been used. Then they considered which way each of them fell, forward or backward, to the right or left hand, and agreeably gave responses, having made use of the fall of their staffs for signs." From the above is it easy to see how www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/r/rhabdomancy.html   (343 words)

RHABDOMANCY Meaning and Definition - Dictionary - eLook.org RHABDOMANCY Meaning and Definition - Dictionary - eLook.org www.elook.org /dictionary/rhabdomancy.html   (20 words)

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