Custom And Myth
Custom And Myth
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Chevreuil could find no earlier book on the twig than the * Testament du Fr^re Basil Valentin,' a holy man who flourished (the twig) about 141 3 ; but whose treatise is possibly apocryphal. According to Basil Valentin, the twig was regarded with awe by ignorant labouring men, which is still tme. Para- celsus, though he has a reputation for magical daring, thought the use of the twig * uncertain and unlawful ' ; Digitized.by VjOOQ IC THE DIVINING ROD. 1 89 and Agricola, in his 'De Re Metallica* ...(1546) ex- presses a good deal of scepticism about the use of the rod in mining. A traveller of 1554 found that the wand was not used — and this seems to have sur- prised him — in the mines of Macedonia. Most of the writers of the sixteenth century accounted for the turning of the rod by * sympathy/ which was then as favourite an explanation of everything as evolution is to-day. In 1630 the Baron de Beau Soleil of Bohemia (his name sounds rather Bohemian) came to France with his wife, and made much use of the rod in the search for water and minerals.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Chevreuil could find no earlier book on the twig than the * Testament du Fr^re Basil Valentin,' a holy man who flourished (the twig) about 141 3 ; but whose treatise is possibly apocryphal. According to Basil Valentin, the twig was regarded with awe by ignorant labouring men, which is still tme. Para- celsus, though he has a reputation for magical daring, thought the use of the twig * uncertain and unlawful ' ; Digitized.by VjOOQ IC THE DIVINING ROD. 1 89 and Agricola, in his 'De Re Metallica* ...(1546) ex- presses a good deal of scepticism about the use of the rod in mining. A traveller of 1554 found that the wand was not used — and this seems to have sur- prised him — in the mines of Macedonia. Most of the writers of the sixteenth century accounted for the turning of the rod by * sympathy/ which was then as favourite an explanation of everything as evolution is to-day. In 1630 the Baron de Beau Soleil of Bohemia (his name sounds rather Bohemian) came to France with his wife, and made much use of the rod in the search for water and minerals.
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