#ikriki

[mysteriousplanchette]

Yesterday I posted a selection of Ikriki pendulum devices from my collection, and today I’m featuring a few illustrations from their instructions, courtesy of my friend and fellow collector@philiptreece. Thanks for the scans, Philip! #ikriki #pendulum #dowsing #sexdetector #occult #ghost #seance #rooster #spiritualism #radiestesia #seance #egg #pendule https://www.instagram.com/p/CAP6tCqlpIT/?igshid=4wxvj6v33zc6

[mysteriousplanchette]

A triune of Ikriki pendulums. Primarily sold as “sex detectors” for poultry eggs in the 1920s, the instructions also inform the user that “ghosts can be called to” with the device during use, bumping it from the pseudoscientific realm of dowsing toward the less earthly spiritual realm. #ikriki #pendulum #dowsing #sexdetector #occult #ghost #seance #rooster #spiritualism #radiestesia #seance #egg #pendule https://www.instagram.com/p/CANZyjPF6DF/?igshid=1s1sfloux3t76