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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 ...
Many such devices contain non-functional circuitry or naively constructed approximations of radio transmitters. A few do have functional circuitry, putting out a weak signal with a function generator or a simple timer circuit, but are still largely useless in comparison with a coil-based metal detector; others have been found to contain intentionally obfuscated or completely superfluous ...
In May 2014, Dowsing released a 7-inch split with Annabel via Count Your Lucky Stars. [8] [9] [10] In July 2015, Count Your Lucky Stars Records released a 7-inch split with The Cardboard Swords, Dowsing, Long Knives, and Sinai Vessel. [11] On April 29, 2016, Dowsing released their third studio album entitled Okay via Asian Man Records.
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[1] When a visitor attempted the same feat nothing happened. When the visitor held one end of the rod and von Graeve the other the rod bent towards the coin but not as violently as before. [1] The motion of such dowsing devices is generally attributed to the ideomotor phenomenon, a psychological response where a subject makes motions ...
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)
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.