A MYSTERIOUS SENSE

Evening Star, Issue 19550, 7 May 1927, Page 18

A MYSTERIOUS SENSE

At one time water-diviners were regarded as charlatans or frauds. Old records contain accounts of some who found water being accused of witchcraft and put to death, and of others being beaten for failing in their quest! But water-divining is now recognised as a gift, even if it cannot be explained. If some people can find water, is it impossible that others have a gift for finding other things? One man found the following articles within five months;—A sovereign at the back of an upholstered railway-carriage seat; a gold ring caught in the bars of a street drain; a gold pencil-case on the floor of a bus; a thin sheet of beaten gold 'in an old book on a stall; and a brooch on the sands of a seaside town.

He says that in each case he had a peculiar sensation, as though he were a piece of steel being drawn by a powerful magnet. His hands twitched a little, in apparently the same way that .the hands of the water-diviner twitch and make the hazel twig bend when he is over water.

An ancient says that all of ns have some “finding ’’ gift, although we may be quite unconscious of it. A dealer in pearls, real and artificial, can “ find ” the former at once. His fingers get a sensation absent when near artificial stones. Many people are sure weather prophets. They “find” the weather, although they may say they “ feel ” it.