The result was that all the stone that was used in this region had to be carried up the river from some place fifty or sixty miles distant, where the geomancers had declared that no spirits were to be found.
Whether it is their training that has developed the artistic element in these geomancers or not it is impossible to declare definitely.
Middle Ages, it reappears as an instrument in the hands of geomancers (people who selected favourable sites for graves, etc).
Hirth is rather inclined to assume that Arab travellers may have seen it in the hands of Chinese geomancers and applied its use to navigation, so that it was afterwards brought back by them to China as the 'mariner's compass.
He thereupon ordered all the sorceresses, fortune-tellers, exorcists and geomancers to deliver up the books of their craft to the government and a great fire was made with them in front of the palace.
It was made a crime to delay the interment of a corpse simply because the geomancers could not find an auspicious spot for the burial, and all geomancers’ books were ordered burned.
Sometimes it is a matter of several years, my guide told me, the geomancers or fortune-tellers being employed all this time in finding a suitable site for a grave.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "geomancers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
