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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.
The dowser must first check the area to see if there is any natural water or anything else that would interfere with the test, and that would be marked. 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.
It was alleged by Kenneth Roberts who wrote the book Henry Gross and His Dowsing Rod (1951) that Gross located water all over Maine and in surrounding states. [1] [2] Science writer Martin Gardner disputed any occult interpretation of Gross's abilities commenting that his dowsing was the result of the exaggeration, ideomotor effect and random ...
Probably 30-40 years ago, water dowsing was by far the most popular application, and I might even agree that a majority of water dowsers believed they could detect moving water. But today, it's very possible that water dowsing is no longer the largest slice of the dowsing pie, and the rest of the pie certainly make no claims about detecting ...
Ley hunters often combined their search for ley lines with other esoteric practices like dowsing and numerology and with a belief in a forthcoming Age of Aquarius that would transform human society. Although often hostile to archaeologists, some ley hunters attempted to ascertain scientific evidence for their belief in earth energies at ...
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…There is a rather large community of people around the world that believes in dowsing: the ancient practice of using forked sticks, swinging rods, and pendulums to look for underground water and other materials. These people believe that many types of materials can be located using a variety of dowsing methods.
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)