Most of the major water companies in the United Kingdom use dowsing rods — a folk magic practice discredited by science — to find underwater pipes, according to an Oxford Ph.D. student and science ...

There are many different ways to hold a divining rod or dowsing rod. Some people prefer to "witch" for water with a pendulum. The practice relies on the idea that the object will suddenly move when a ...

(AP) With California in the grips of drought, farmers throughout the state are using a mysterious and some say foolhardy tool for locating underground water: dowsers, or water witches. Practitioners ...

Biologist Sally Le Page couldn't believe it when she heard a folk magic practice was being used to look for water mains in 2017. But 10 out of 12... Updated 7 a.m. Wednesday Most of the major water ...

With California in the grips of drought, farmers throughout the state are using a mysterious and some say foolhardy tool for locating underground water: dowsers, or water witches. Practitioners of ...

Ten out of 12 water utilities in the United Kingdom admitted that their technicians use divining rods to find underground leaks or water pipes, according to an investigation by science blogger Sally ...

Leroy Bull was about 12 the first time he dowsed. He and his cousins were at a family reunion in Watertown, NY, and his grandfather, a dairy farmer and water dowser, took them all outside, handed them ...

From the “Planet” section of the July, 1980 issue of High Times comes an interesting take on the practice of dowsing. Dowsing—the art of locating underground water—has been vindicated as an applied ...