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cancerwereeliminated from
the body, which flowered
suddenly like at the age of
twenty.” Of course, the envy
of the trade had promptly
functioned, so in a few years
he had become the target
of wretched attacks. They
had eventually put him in
jail for quackery and only
the testimony of several
persons from the high-life
had saved him from losing
his fortune.
He had chosen the location
for the house according to
a complicated procedure.
I had listened to the old
man with interest and
amusement up to that point.
From here on, however, the
story became heavy with a
lot of technical details I could
not evaluate and was not
interested in. I understood
later the meaning of his
demonstration:
uncle
Mikola seemed to believe in
an energetic network of the
Earthwhichhad some points
of great intensity (nodes)
and some inert points. His
house needed to be placed
on a node, the closest on the
map. One could find such
points either by using the
sensitivity of a geomancer
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or by making mind-boggling
numerology
calculations.
The old man had used
both methods. Once he
found one of the Bucharest
nodes by using the art of
numerology, he also verified
the computation accuracy
through his hyper-sensory
abilities. “The magical area
was right there, ingypsyland,
on that waste ground. I
8 Geomancy is a form of divina-
tion that interprets markings on the
ground or the patterns formed by
tossing handfuls of dust, soil or rock