Dowsing water witching divining and doodlebugging are all names for the practice of locating groundwater by walking the surface of a property while holding a forked stick a pair of l shaped rods a pendulum or another tool that responds when the person moves above a location that will yield an adequate flow of water to a drilled well see figure 1.
Witching stick to find water.
Sounds simple but does it work.
A forked twig is the most common form of a dowsing or divining rod.
Dowsing is a pseudoscience there is no scientific evidence that it s any more effective than random chance.
Cut a fresh forked stick of peach hickory dogwood cherry or whatever works for you and.
The history of dowsing.
Dowsing uses a stick known as a dowsing or divining rod to help you find water on your land.
Grandpa shutterstock dowsing is an unexplained process in which people use a forked twig or wire to find.
According to the american society of dowsers divining the location of water dates back many millennia.
Some call it the gift others refer to it as dowsing doodlebugging or water witching the practice of locating water underground using a forked stick.
Dowsers often achieve good results because random.
Dowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water buried metals or ores gemstones oil gravesites malign earth vibrations and many other objects and materials without the use of a scientific apparatus.
In response to philip ball s article water divining is bunk 22 november in the mid 1970s my parents built a house in county clare and employed a diviner to find water.
Before technology was developed that would allow us to see into the ground people depended on dowsing also known as divining or water witching to find water wells metals gemstones and even missing people and unmarked graves.