Diviners also deal with ' aimu ' spirit possession, and often, as in the case of the doctors, they acquire some of their knowledge from the ' aimu '.

** The Diviners, afterword by Timothy Findley

The Diviners is a novel by Margaret Laurence.

The Diviners was adapted for television by Anne Wheeler, with a screenplay by Linda Svendsen, and aired on CBC Television in 1993.

He appeared as Christie in the TV movie The Diviners ( 1993 ) based on the Governor General's Award-winning novel by Margaret Laurence, and as Holly Hunter's ailing father, Tug Jones, in the TV movie Harlan County War ( 2000 ).

When the Diviners were wiped out during the Iron Wars, the Corridors were maintained by the Kan-hanar's Life while the church took control of the use of the Corridors.

* Fiction: Margaret Laurence, The Diviners.

Diviners would submit questions to deities regarding future weather, crop planting, the fortunes of members of the royal family, military endeavors, and other similar topics.

* Jim Leonard, playwright ( The Diviners ) and TV producer / writer Close to Home.

Wizards who specialize in this school are known as Diviners.

61, No. 3, Diviners, Seers and Prophets in Eastern Africa ( 1991 ), pp. 370 – 399.

His films include The Diviners.

Memphis, one of the protagonists of Libba Bray's 2012 teen novel The Diviners, is a numbers-runner in 1920s Harlem.

The magi of Time, known as Diviners, also created the Corridors, holes in time and space that take a person from one place to another.

Used in various forms for thousands of years, diviners ascertain their interpretations of how a querent should proceed by reading signs, events, or omens, or through alleged contact with a supernatural agency.

In an intellectual property case, an expert may be shown two music scores, book texts, or circuit boards and asked to ascertain their degree of similarity.

The author describes various tests by which readers may ascertain whether or not their communion with God is genuine, and teaches that the proof of spiritual regeneration is a life of active righteousness.

Golden Gate Cetacean Research, a non-profit organization focused on research on cetaceans, has developed a photo-identification database enabling the scientists to identify specific porpoise individuals and is trying to ascertain whether a healthier bay has brought their return.

Melting points are often used to characterize organic and inorganic compounds and to ascertain their purity.

The task given to these groups ( who were watched over by their own action research teams ) was to ascertain how much real demand t here was for support from the social services in their areas of choice, based on the theory that workers in social services usually failed to communicate what they had to offer or to make themselves available, thereby resulting in many deprived people failing to acquire the services that they so desperately needed.

Forensic palynology is the study of pollen and powdered minerals, their identification, and where and when they occur, to ascertain that a body or other object was in a certain place at a certain time.

Leuchter started Fred Leuchter Associates in which he sold services to several states to help them maintain, improve, document, and ascertain the effectiveness of their equipment for administration of capital punishment.

For this reason, observant Jews at times find it important for religious reasons to ascertain who their household's religious ancestors are in order to know what customs their household should follow.

" Neil Young introduced him to an audiologist who suggested he use an In-ear monitor, and although they cancelled their spring 2010 touring schedule, Townshend used the device at their one remaining London concert on 30 March 2010, to ascertain the feasibility of Townshend continuing to perform with The Who.

The ways samurai tactics and attitudes were affected directly by these experiences, and their extent, are of course difficult to ascertain, but were certainly significant.

Mu ' tazilis believed that the first obligation on humans, specifically adults in full possession of their mental faculties, is to use their intellectual power to ascertain the existence of God, and to become knowledgeable of His attributes.

The chief whip, Edward Heath, canvassed the views of backbench Conservative MPs, and two senior Conservative peers, the Lord President of the Council, Lord Salisbury, and the Lord Chancellor, Lord Kilmuir, saw members of the cabinet individually to ascertain their preferences.

* Global Positioning System ( GPS ): allows drivers of cars and trucks, captains of boats and ships, and pilots of aircraft to ascertain their location anywhere on earth.

I cannot ascertain the loss of the enemy, but it must have been considerable ; between 200 and 300 dead were left on the field of battle .... many of their wounded escaped .... Our forage parties have reported to me that houses in a circle six to eight miles around us are full of others .... We took few prisoners ".

These data are invaluable for the scientists to ascertain whether effects seen in their experimental data are due to external disturbances or not.

To make sure that do the pseudogenes are transcribed in to RNA and to ascertain their functionality the studies on mouse oocyte are very useful where the small interfering RNAs ( siRNAs ) derived from pseudogene are found to be functional in regulating gene expression.

They must ascertain and act on their customers ' needs and desires, not bank on the presumed longevity of their products.

Their bright contrasting plumage patterns, sexual dimorphism and feeding habits made their systematic position difficult to ascertain in early times, Richard Bowdler Sharpe placed them with the Prionopidae in 1879 while many considered them as some kind of aberrant thrush.

On the other hand, the Talmud ( in Tractate Baba Batra 15a – 16b ) goes to great lengths trying to ascertain when Job actually lived, citing many opinions and interpretations by the leading sages.

Because no set definition of what constitutes a lake and no procedures for counting the number of lakes exist, it has been impossible to ascertain exactly how many lakes the region has.

It is not for the inquest to ascertain " how the deceased died " or " in what broad circumstances ", but " how the deceased came by his death ", a more limited question.

But how far Alberti was responsible for these innovations and how far he was simply articulating the trends of the artistic movement, with which his practical experience had made him familiar, is impossible to ascertain.

It does not remotely resemble how we understand what our own minds are: they are, as far as we can ascertain, a series of experiences, thoughts, judgments, feelings, decisions, and so forth, coming one after another.

According to its abstract, ISO / IEC 7816-5 defines how to use an application identifier to ascertain the presence of and / or perform the retrieval of an application in a card.

In a translation of an ancient Nabataean text by Kuthami the Babylonian, Ibn Wahshiyya ( c. 9th-10th century AD ), adds information on his own efforts to ascertain the identity of Tammuz, and his discovery of the full details of the legend of Tammuz in another Nabataean book: " How he summoned the king to worship the seven ( planets ) and the twelve ( signs ) and how the king put him to death several times in a cruel manner Tammuz coming to life again after each time, until at last he died ; and behold!

* Gearing ( leverage ): A warrant's " gearing " is the way to ascertain how much more exposure you have to the underlying shares using the warrant as compared to the exposure you would have if you buy shares through the market.

There exists little historical evidence of Dominguito aside from the stories and legends built around him ; it is difficult to ascertain how much, if any, his story is true.

But other land uses exist, such as urban areas, pasture, or fallow, so further research is necessary to ascertain what land has been converted for what purposes, to determine how true this view remains.

It is not possible to determine how high the French and Spanish losses of troops were during the war, or to ascertain civilian losses.

After that, if Kirk still refuses, he will undergo the intense mind scraping technique, leaving him a vegetable, whereas Spock will be dissected to ascertain how he was able to resist the mind probe.

More studies on the social aspects of forgiveness should be done to ascertain how forgiveness affects social groups in families or communities.

Many other fire eaters dismiss this, claiming that a skilled fire eater should not burn themselves, but since the art of fire eating is kept quite secret it is hard to ascertain exactly how it is done.

They were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purpose of poetic pleasure.

The intention was to explore that region and ascertain how far westward the Nile basin extended ; also to investigate the reports of a vast lake in Central Africa eastwards of those already known, most likely the lake-like expanses of the middle Congo.

Like other volcanic zones in Canada, the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt is not monitored closely enough by the Geological Survey of Canada to ascertain how active its magma system is.

:"... it was not my object to define the place of play among all other manifestations of culture, but rather to ascertain how far culture itself bears the character of play.

Her aunt, Mary Woodrow, the wife of Samuel Sibley ( 1657 – 1708 ), was the person who first showed Tituba and her husband John Indian how to bake a witch cake to feed to a dog in order that she and her friends might ascertain exactly who it was that was afflicting them.

For example, to answer the second question, the attorney would need to ascertain additional things: how should the degree of damage be measured?

Miles hopes her findings will help ascertain how human symbolic systems may have evolved and developed.