22"Rhabdomancy"22

by Charlesrhice   Oct 1, 2008


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22"Rhabdomancy"22

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"Rhabdomancy"
"Rhabdomancy"
Today's Word "Rhabdomancy"
"Rhabdomancy"
rhabdomancy \RAEB-deh-maen-see\ (noun) - Divination of the location of water, oil, etc. by means of a divining rod or stick; dowsing, witch-wiggling. From Greek rhabdomanteia based on rhabdos "rod" + manteia "divination." The Proto-Indo-European root is werb- or werbh- "to turn, bend" that also developed into "warp" and "wrap." Other variants of this stem underlie "rhapsody" from Greek rhapsoidia based on rhapsis "stitching together" (from rhaptein "to sew") + oide "song, ode" + ia, a noun suffix. The suffix -mancy comes from Late Latin -mantia inherited from Greek manteia "divination." Eye searched in vain for a half member poem or should say a partial remembrance in vain eye say it was gone the aliens got another one eye search for title and well iff eye can�t remember the title it may as well be in a poet book in Spain. Eye bent two sticks upon the ground layed one upon the other one made a cross layed down and rested there now when it rains the water comes four feet deep it was mye rhabdomancy area. Eye werb the corner every time. Werbh the sidewalk when I�m in a hurry to get home please remember gentile reader ewe eye never drive but walk with my rhabdomanteia on. Eye sewed a song of sixpence buried in the crow pie stepping in the ginger rather carefully each step laced with fear of crushing bugs or ants oh oide ooh ode oh gentle noise yes eye am the rainmaker eye made it rain most proficiently now eye need a floodstopper to come to my near miss and pray to Jesus make the water less just keep enough to feed the animals of pray. Witch witching and divining rhabdomanteia bring the water down from clouds soaked brown with flood in mind eye sing the oide eye prate the ode eye lay the sticks upon the stones and cry the water down and then eye werbh away to dry to miss the flood. Eye never save a drop but give it all away to GOD he laps up all the rain that does not ever make it to the brain and puts it back in clouds above no weedhopper you have confused the divination of the Chinese with the divining rod of witches not that eye was ever a witch at all but that is what they think of it eye have the water in the desert saved up in thousands of separate places just remember it will dissipate soon enough but for now and for the last four years in this time cycle there was water here for everyone divined and dowsed with mantia.

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