dowsing

Ways of using a divining rod (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 1 older comment, and then…
• Wystan said:

  Also known as water dowsing.

• aware health said:

  There was a dowsing-rod STAMP series?

• Elijah said:

  The pictures are labeled in one language in script (Spanish?) and then another (German) in type. These don't appear to be postage stamps, and do appear to be thumbtacked to something. The pushpins can be seen in each corner. -- Seen on your photo stream. (?)

• aware health said:

  I'm guessing the script is French. Yeah, with no money denomination I didn't think they were postage stamps; they're just perforated like the lick-and-stick stamps my kids used to have, and look to have been torn from a bigger sheet. They're numbered, apparently in a series. People collect all sorts of things. Why not these? PS: Babelfish says the print on the bottom says "Handling of the divining rod from old times"

• Retired at last said:

  Otto Edler von Graeve (top line of writing on sticker) was a proponent of dowsing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Edler_von_Graeve