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. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
It is not water, but treasures which they profess to find by some hidden kind of rhabdomancy. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers] Reference
I refer to such organic forces as are popularly summed up under the words clairvoyance, mesmerism, rhabdomancy, animal magnetism, physical spiritualism. From Wordnik.com. [The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America] Reference
Rhabdomantic: "related to rhabdomancy" ( "divination by means of a rod or wand; spec. a technique for searching for underground water, minerals, etc.; dowsing"). From Wordnik.com. [Orange Crate Art] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret] Reference
By mystic trick of rhabdomancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes] Reference
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