| Traditional practitioners include herbalists, bone setters, diviners, and ritual specialists who may supplicate spirits or ancestors. |
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| It was common to find diviners with their forked sticks trying to identify rich seams. |
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| Every decision surrounding the production was made after Norbu carefully consulted with yogis, oracles and diviners. |
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| Compared with their peers, diviners excel in insight, imagination, fluency in language, and knowledge of cultural traditions. |
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| Ask them about water witches, or diviners, and find out if they have heard about them. |
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| They ask soothsayers and diviners to find out the cause of problems and to suggest remedies. |
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| Indigenous African religious practitioners included herbalists and diviners who attended to the spiritual needs and maladies of both individuals and communities. |
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| Furthermore, animist beliefs and voodoo are prevalent in Togolese culture, and the role of fetishists and diviners is still significant. |
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| It is not clear, however, how many of these diviners were women, or whether women performed their tasks in ways different from males. |
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| The different sources largely agree that in Owambo there were four grades of diviners. |
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| Traditional Xhosa culture includes diviners, who serve as herbalists, prophets and healers for the community. |
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| High points were the beaded regalia of Yoruba and Luba diviners. |
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| Similarly, it knows nothing of ancestor worship, polytheism, diviners or demons, all of which are attested to in various forms in earlier Israelite popular religion. |
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| Again the so-called god-men and diviners claim to possess powers. |
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| To divine and to believe the words of diviners, foretellers, and sorcerers is meanness. |
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| In the lives of saints and martyrs, the druids are represented as magicians and diviners. |
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| K'iche' diviners believe that they have a kind of soul in their blood in the form of sheet lightning. |
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| He was later inspired by African power masks from Congo wood carvings used by diviners to help them communicate with the spirits which used everyday materials, such as nails and mirrors. |
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| First conceived by musicians, astronomers, or diviners and then propagated by a school that came to be named after them, yin and yang became the common stock of all Chinese philosophy. |
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| The teenagers go about like water diviners, or Arthurian knights on an endless quest to find the Holy Grail. |
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| Many of our fellow countrymen and women think they are witches, wizards, seers, time travellers and water diviners. |
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| There are a lot of theories emerging around this human creation, but all the archaeologists, water diviners and dowsers who paced it up and down agree that it is full of sense, history or energy. |
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| His copy of The Diviners was meticulously tabbed and flagged and he had a thick file of all of the emails that the two men had exchanged with each other before this evening. |
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| Diviners started to include seven Psalms with litanies and prayers. |
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| In such novels as Margaret Laurence's The Diviners, both European romantic folk ethnicism and native traditions are evoked as core elements of identity. |
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