The Heav’ns are all a-blaze, the face of night Is cover’d with a sanguine dreadful light:

[…] Don't talk ov housen all o' brick, / Wi' rocken walls nine inches thick, […]

However the account of the Pensill or hanging gardens of Babylon […] is of no slender antiquity.

This question of buried treasure exercised the minds of ancient occultists considerably, and in connection with it there was frequently employed the art of Rhabdomancy, which was similar to that of water divining or water dousing.