| For water-witching or foretelling the future, the diviner was often an integral, if under-appreciated member of the country village. |
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| Originally from Ballygar Co. Galway he worked as a well boring contractor and water diviner. |
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| Farming a small parcel of land Tom made a big name for himself as a water diviner with his services in big demand throughout the county. |
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| Until recently Kerry was best known in the district as a wood turner and water diviner. |
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| After being shaken in their containers, these intriguing objects' resultant relationships are interpreted by the diviner. |
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| Yet another reason for faulty divinations simply lies with the diviner making mistakes of interpretation. |
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| It was here in the 19th century that the famous Xhosa prophet and diviner Nxele attempted a resurrection. |
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| Sangomas are a mixture of priest, diviner, predictor and healer with powers derived from being the incarnation of an ancestral spirit. |
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| When someone got sick, they turned to the shaman to be healed. The shaman was-and is-a priest, a healer, a magician, a diviner. |
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| The statuette both represents and serves as the abode for the bush spirits who are believed to be in contact with the diviner. |
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| He was water diviner and a radiesthesia practitioner and cured bodies and souls with plants. |
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| The diviner, sometimes compared with the prophet, performs the priestly art of foretelling. |
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| The diviner employs the arts dramatically, heightening all the senses, to create and highlight this radically different setting for the oracular utterance. |
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| Among the Yaka, the new moon, the diviner covers her face with kaolin before issuing an oracle. |
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| When this happens, the help of a diviner or herbalist is sought. |
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| How do we meet the one who is explorer, nomad for all seasons, diviner, reader of dementia, the man with four eyes, as we say in my country? |
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| It is also possible to become a diviner after having been taken over by a bush spirit or a python spirit. |
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| Nobody wants to be a diviner, but anybody called by the spirits to be a diviner and who refuses can be punished by death. |
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| The diviner is consulted for various reasons, such as the cause of sickness or even death. |
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| Many are composites, assembled under instructions from a diviner, coated in palm oil and blood and then activated to invoke the power to protect, or harm. |
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| Believe it or not, many people will not start to dig a well until they have called in a water witch, or diviner, to locate the spot where they are likely to find water. |
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| You used your talents even as a water diviner for our wells. |
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| A water witch or diviner might help you locate underground water. |
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| The diviner is the person who can understand the will of the Thil. |
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| The shaman played many roles and was seen for example as healer, spiritual advisor, diviner, dream interpreter, ceremonialist and storyteller. |
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| Then the diviner cites another omen, whose protasis describes the appearance of the sun within a lunar halo, a seemingly impossible event. |
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| The Sangoma is a traditional diviner chosen by the ancestors of that particular family. |
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| After the death of Ekwefi's second child, Okonkwo had gone to a medicine man, who was also a diviner of the Afa Oracle, to enquire what was amiss. |
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| The Water Diviner is a heartfelt tale of broken men and redemption based on the book of the same name. |
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| The Water Diviner Cert 15 RUSSELL Crowe stars as an Australian farmer who travels to Turkey to find his three missing sons four years after the Battle of Gallipoli. |
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| Set in 1919, The Water Diviner is a moving story about Australian Joshua Connor who travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try to locate his three missing sons. |
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