hazel twig

Do you beat yourself with hazel twigs every morning too?

While passing a forest he got a hazel twig, and gave it to his daughter.

Dad used to get his hazel twigs from a forester at Winterslow who knew exactly when they should be cut.

At a council meeting of his barons one day he sat apart, chewing a hazel twig and apparently lost to the world.

The moldy mole picked up a hazel twig and took an angry pace forward.

Brother, does the hazel twig dip?

By sleight of paw, Ballaw produced a hazel twig.

I've driven a hazel twig into the ground opposite the place, and the hole I prised it from will say unless we have a thaw.

While I waited for it to boil, I prepared a hazel twig to stir the mixture.

They had spent a vast sum of money on a modern equivalent of a hazel twig divining rod.

A boy or girl innocently trespassing upon a fairy meadow might be cruelly whipped with hazel twigs.

The charge on the sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side, a hazel twig with leaves and nuts, is thus canting.

In Cidoton the only radio happened to be switched off, and so Howard whittled at his hazel twig in peace.

Caterpillars of the concealer moth, Alabonia geoffrella, have been found feeding inside dead common hazel twigs.

When steel was being tempered, hazel twigs were used to test the metal's heat, the stick about a foot long was rubbed on the steel.

The hazel twig stands for Hessenthal, whose name was once "Haseltal" ("Hazeldale").

Not many theodolites have a hazel twig strapped to the top, either, or crystal pendulums hanging from them and Celtic runes carved into the legs.

The skeptics naturally scoffed, especially when diviners paced the riverside meadows, hazel twigs, willow branches and silver chains limp in their hands.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Mathew Edward Stones was widely known for his skill at water and metal divining using hazel twigs.

Marsden described the ship as having a carvel-built hull caulked with hazel twigs, mast-step and thick floors secured with nails.

Hazel twigs in Europe and witch-hazel in the United States are traditionally commonly chosen, as are branches from willow or peach trees.

So if they decide to fight a duel, they don't square off inside an enclosure marked with hazel twigs, or fight a formal holmgang like you did once.

The use of the twigs as divining rods, just as hazel twigs were used in England, may also have, by folk etymology, influenced the "witch" part of the name.

I was born before we came to this world; I can sniff gold from the bones of the earth and follow its path for miles, as you follow ground water with a hazel twig.

After the dragons visited him the fourth time, he began carrying an old metal shovel along with the forked hazel twig, his small hide waterskin, and a bag of preserved meat and fruit.