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Divination with wands or rods, especially to use a divining rod to find things below the ground. quotations examples
This question of buried treasure exercised the minds of ancient occultists considerably, and in connection with it there was frequently employed the art of Rhabdomancy, which was similar to that of water divining or water "dousing".
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 145