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of his remarks he exhibited actual specimens of the forked 

 twigs used, and gave an account of personal observations 

 of the process. Walking with a "diviner" who used the 

 twigs, he marked the places where they "pointed" on the 

 outward journey, and the walk being reversed, with the 

 twigs still in use, he made similar records on the return 

 along the same route, and found that the two series 

 did not coincide. He attributed the "pointing" to 

 the — perhaps unconscious — muscular movements of the 

 hands due to the constrained position in which the twigs 

 were held, and practically condemned "divination" as 

 entirely illusory and valueless. 



