Jacob's Rod: A 17th century treatise on the Ancient and Honorable Arte of Dowsing

Jacobs Rod is a digitally enhanced facsimile of a late seventeenth century text detailing the art and methods of dowsing with traditional hazel rods. It was translated from the original French into English by Thomas Welton in 1870 and was presented at the time as a rare and curious work dated a.d.1693 on the arte of finding springs mines and minerals by means of the hazel rod.Dowsing is a fast-disappearing art form that has been used by traditional cunning folks farmers miners and folk magicians for hundreds of years in Europe and Jacobs Rod is a voice from the distant past sending forth their knowledge into the future. It is a rare gem for anyone interested in folk traditions folk magic or the arte of the traditional English country Charmers or Cunning folks.Jacobs Rod is presented with an in-depth foreword by Michael Sheppard.