#rhabdomancy

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✧ #lollesorceryacademy ♡ DAY 09 ~ rhabdomancy ©️Lolle (2021) 🌿🗝💧

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• Rhabdomancy : the antique practice of finding water through a wooden stick 🍂

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• media : pilot g-tec 0.4 and pilot hi-tecpoint 0.5 on light sketchbook paper ♡ ♡ ♡

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apparently no one has done the pyromancy as divination via fire -> pyromancy as magical control over fire thing to rhabdomancy yet, very sad

perhaps i should make an OC about it

[englishmoribund]

Discovering the Lost Art of Rhabdomancy: Understanding the History and Practice of Divining for Water and Minerals

Rhabdomancy is a little-known term that refers to the practice of divining for water or minerals using a forked stick or rod. The word is derived from the Greek "rhabdos," meaning rod, and "manteia," meaning divination.

The practice of rhabdomancy dates back to ancient times and has been used in various cultures and civilizations throughout history. In ancient Greece, for example, rhabdomancers were believed to possess the ability to locate underground water sources by holding a forked stick and walking across a dry landscape. The stick would supposedly bend or move in the direction of the water, allowing the rhabdomancer to locate the source.

Rhabdomancy was also used in mining to locate ore deposits, this time with a metallic rod.

Rhabdomancy was an especially important practice in arid regions where water was scarce and vital for survival. In these areas, rhabdomancers were highly respected and their services were in great demand.

Today, rhabdomancy is a largely forgotten practice, replaced by more modern techniques for locating water and minerals. However, the term is still used in some circles, particularly by those interested in divination and the history of dowsing.

Example sentence: "The villagers hired a rhabdomancer to locate an underground water source.

[wearyourdictionary]

Rhabdomancer [ラブドマンサー] - One who carries out rhabdomancy; the user of a divining rod.  [See: Rhabdomancer] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rhabdomancer

[wearyourdictionary]

Rhabdomancy [ラブドマンシー] - Divination with wands or rods, especially to use a divining rod to find things below the ground.  [See: Rhabdomancy] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rhabdomancy

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