rhabdomancy

Numbers 17 has also been attributed to rhabdomancy.

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Rhabdomancy is divination by a wand or divining rod.

Dr. Richards must also have been interested in demonology, witchcraft, familiars, rhabdomancy.

Rhabdomancy: divination by rods.

Note that none of the divinatory practices denoted by rhabdomancy in English are documented from ancient Greece sources.

Something like it is also mentioned in Hosea 4:12, although a staff or rod is used instead of arrows, which is rather rhabdomancy than belomancy.

It can be qualitative (such as shapes, proximities, etc.): for example, dowsing (a form of rhabdomancy) developed from this type of divination.

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.

Under discussion will be Chinese astrology, physiognomy, the Yi Jing (I Ching), rhabdomancy and numerology, or Luo Shu divination.

The form most often performed by the Department was rhabdomancy, or dowsing, used to find lost property or to find the best place for the site of a house or to locate a hidden spring.

Thomas Browne, in his Pseudodoxia Epidemica, notes that Ezekiel 21.21 describes the divination by arrows of Nebuchadnezzar II as rhabdomancy, though this can also be termed belomancy.

On 2 February 1833 the Leicester Chronicle said: "Ching Lau Lauro, naturalist and professor of rhabdomancy, who met with the greatest success at Drury Lane and Vauxhall Gardens, is now in this town."

W.F. Kirby, an English translator of the Kalevala, notes that in Runo 49, Väinämöinen uses rhabdomancy, or divination by rods, to learn where the sun and moon are hidden, but this interpretation is rejected by Aili Kolehmainen Johnson (1950).