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A dowser, from an 18th-century French book about superstitions. Dowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, claimed radiations (radiesthesia), [1] gravesites, [2] malign "earth vibrations" [3] and many other objects and materials without the use of a scientific apparatus.
Henry Gross. Henry Gross (1895–1979) was an American game warden and dowser.. Gross worked as a game warden in Biddeford, Maine.He was most well known for his search of objects and underground water by dowsing with a Y-shaped stick.
An aspergillum is used in Roman Catholic, Lutheran and Anglican ceremonies, including the Rite of Baptism and during the Easter Season. [3] In addition, a priest will use the aspergillum to bless the candles during Candlemas services and the palms during Palm Sunday Mass. [4] At a requiem, if a coffin is present, the priest will sprinkle holy water on the coffin.
Poohsticks Bridge in Ashdown Forest (Poohsticks is a game first mentioned in The House at Pooh Corner, a Winnie-the-Pooh book by A. A. Milne.It is a simple game which may be played on any bridge over running water; each player drops a stick on the upstream side of a bridge and the one whose stick first appears on the downstream side is the winner.
Drum stick, used to strike drums; Part of a bow used to play a string instrument; Chapman Stick, an electric musical instrument in the guitar family; Percussion stick, a struck percussion instrument; Led Zeppelin IV, a 1971 album sometimes referred to as Sticks; The Sticks, a 2012 album by Canadian band Mother Mother
The forerunners of pleasure punts, fishing punts, usually had an additional compartment, called a "well," which extended across the width of the punt a little way in front of the till. This compartment was made water-tight, and had holes in the bottom or sides so that it could be flooded with water. It was used for keeping any caught fish.
The xylospongium or tersorium, also known as a "sponge on a stick", was a utensil found in ancient Roman latrines, consisting of a wooden stick (Greek: ξύλον, xylon) with a sea sponge (Greek: σπόγγος, spongos) fixed at one end. Academics disagree as to its exact use, about which the primary sources are vague.
The Staff of Moses, also known as the Rod of Moses or Staff of God, is mentioned in the Bible and Quran as a walking stick used by Moses. According to the Book of Exodus , the staff ( Hebrew : מַטֶּה , romanized : maṭṭe , translated "rod" in the King James Bible ) was used to produce water from a rock, was transformed into a snake and ...