Dowsing dates back centuries, or even millennia, depending on how you interpret some rod-wielding figures found on the walls of Egypt’s pyramids, Chinese carvings and African murals.

The dowsing that most people are familiar with is water dowsing, or water witching or rhabdomancy, in which a person holds a Y-shaped branch (or two L-shaped wire rods) and walks around until they ...

The most common dowsing rod is a wish-bone shaped stick held in a variety of ways, but usually clenched in the fists with the point facing away from the dowser at chest height.

The practice of using a branched wooden stick (a dowsing rod) to locate underground water or buried minerals is known as dowsing or divining. In some areas of the United States, this practice may ...

What exactly are they? Dowsing rods are said to pick up vibrations in the air,in energy waves etc. Like locating water in a desert for example, buried 15 to 20 feet below ground. Native Americans in ...

Updated 7 a.m. Wednesday 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 ...

Then use your pendulum (or rod) to plan your itineraries on the map, to determine which clients to visit and at what hour, to estimate credit (see ‘Dowsing Applied to Business’ by F. and W ...

Thames Water is still using the ancient dowsing method to hunt for leaks, despite scientists saying it doesn’t work. The company, which services nearly 15million homes, has admitted some of ...