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"Why, this is better than the turning-tables," said I, with a half-laugh; and as I laughed, my dog put back his head and howled. F , coming back, had not observed the movement of the chair. He employed himself now in stilling the dog.
"Why, this is better than the turning-tables," said I, with a half-laugh; and as I laughed, my dog put back his head and howled. F , coming back, had not observed the movement of the chair. He employed himself now in stilling the dog.
Believers say that the wide distribution of their favourite mysteries is a proof that 'there is something in them. The incredulous look on our modern 'twigs' and turning-tables and ghost stories as mere 'survivals' from the stage of savage culture, or want of culture, when the fancy of half-starved man was active and his reason uncritical.
The great authority for the modern history of the divining rod is a work published by M. Chevreuil, in Paris, in 1854. M. Chevreuil, probably with truth, regarded the wand as much on a par with the turning-tables, which, in 1854, attracted a good deal of attention.
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