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A dowser, from an 18th-century French book about superstitions. Dowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, claimed radiations (radiesthesia), [1] gravesites, [2] malign "earth vibrations" [3] and many other objects and materials without the use of a scientific apparatus.
divining → see dowsing; djubed [citation needed] → see scrying; dōbutsu uranai: by animal horoscope (Japanese dōbutsu, ' animal ' + uranai, ' prognostication ') domino divination → see cleromancy; dowsing (also divining, water witching): by a divining rod (of unknown origin) dracomancy / ˈ d r æ k oʊ m æ n s i /: by dragons (Greek ...
William Dowsing was born in Laxfield, Suffolk, the son of Wollfran and Johane Dowsing of that place. [2] [4] [5] In August 1643 Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester appointed Dowsing provost-marshal of the armies of the Eastern Association (Cambridgeshire, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Lincolnshire), responsible for supplies and administration.
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Additionally, the dowser must demonstrate that the dowsing reaction works on an exposed pipe with the water running. Then one of the three pipes would be selected randomly for each trial. The dowser would place ten to one hundred pegs in the ground along the path he or she traces as the path of the active pipe.
Rhabdomancy is a divination technique which involves the use of any rod, wand, staff, stick, arrow, or the like.. One method of rhabdomancy was setting a number of staffs on end and observing where they fall, to divine the direction one should travel, or to find answers to certain questions.
Dowsing is a method of divination that attempts to locate ground water or other buried materials. Dowsing may also refer to: William Dowsing (1596–1668), English Puritan and iconoclast; Dowsing (band), an American emo band; Dowsing (horse) (1984–1993), American Thoroughbred racehorse; Dowse may refer to: Dowse (surname)
I really think water dowsers are quite harmless. However bogus it is, the worst that could happen is a person loses some money. What really concerns is medicinal dowsing. Don't be fooled it doesn't work! User:JohnJohn. Mostly agreed. Only problem is, once you believe water dowsing works you might be tempted to believe medical dowsing works as well.