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"Still those doggish vagaries?" said Dubois, sullenly, "banish, I pray, those four-legged thoughts from your mind, and for once live entirely for art." "I must afterwards though cut the divining-rod," said Godfred in a loud voice to himself. "Stop!" cried the long musician, as he jumped up, "you here remind me of a thought, I have wished for some time to impart to you.
I have several times told you about our being dumb with amazement and terror and joy, and things like that, but I never remember us being dumber than we were when he said this. The Indian Uncle went on: 'I told an old friend of mine what a pleasant dinner I had with you, and about the threepenny-bit, and the divining-rod, and all that, and he sent all these odds and ends as presents for you.
Mentioning this curious case, which I supposed unique, to a learned brother of our profession, he told me that he had known other instances of the effect of the hazel upon nervous temperaments in persons of both sexes. Possibly it was some such peculiar property in the hazel that made it the wood selected for the old divining-rod.
Still more analogous than turning tables to the savage use of inspired sticks for directing the inquirer to a lost object or to a criminal, is the modern employment of the divining-rod a forked twig which, held by the ends, revolves in the hands of the performer when he reaches the object of his quest.
Smith had a slight local celebrity, for he and his father were operators with the divining-rod, and when he appropriated this creed a harmless and beneficent one, for polygamy was a later "inspiration" of Brigham Young and began to preach it, in 1844, it gained many converts.
"If the cloud was supposed to be a great bird, the lightnings were regarded as writhing worms or serpents in its beak. These fiery serpents, elikiai gram-moeidws feromenoi, are believed in to this day by the Canadian Indians, who call the thunder their hissing." But these are not the only mythical conceptions which are to be found wrapped up in the various myths of schamir and the divining-rod.
'Yes; and then I went about and about and the others got tired, so the divining-rod fell on a certain spot, and I said, "Dig", and we dug it was where the loose board is for the gas men and then there really and truly was a half-sovereign lying under the boards, and here it is. Albert's uncle took it and looked at it. 'The great high priest will bite it to see if it's good, he said, and he did.
This was Cadet's real intent, and perhaps Bigot's, but the Intendant's thoughts lay at unfathomable depths, and were not to be discovered by any traces upon the surface. No divining-rod could tell where the secret spring lay hid which ran under Bigot's motives. Not so De Pean. He meditated treachery, and it were hard to say whether it was unnoted by the penetrating eye of Bigot.
The inmates, however, were alarmed, and the robbers fled, leaving the hand behind them." In the Middle Ages the hand of glory was used, just like the divining-rod, for the detection of buried treasures.
As when a Gryphon through the wilderness, With winged course, o'er hill and moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold: So eagerly the Fiend Paradise Lost. When their collation was ended, Sir Arthur resumed the account of the mysteries of the divining-rod, as a subject on which he had formerly conversed with Dousterswivel.
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