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 ...

The origin of the dowsing rod is lost in antiquity, but it first seems to have come into common use by 16th German miners as a means for locating veins of metallic ore.

The technician who arrived proceeded to locate the mains water pipe with the help of dowsing, walking around using two "bent tent pegs" as rods. Le Page took it upon herself to investigate, and ...

Germany sent an expert, who packed a dowsing rod. Dowsing soon spread through every country in Europe. It rolled right into the 18th-century Enlightenment. This was the so-called Age of Reason.

My broken sprinkler sent me on a quest. Can dowsers help us through the drought? Rob Thompson with his stainless steel dowsing rods at a Napa Valley vineyard.

The 75-year-old said her husband makes the dowsing rods that she and others use to practice the craft. “They’re welding rods is what they are,” she said.

She contacted her. Armed with an L-shaped dowsing wand, a copper hoop and slender copper rods, Harvala went to work. She dowsed the studio, located on the site of the former Ralph's Bar.

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 ...

Dowsing, or water witching, is a centuries-old practice in which a person walks with a divining rod in hand until it moves due to unseen forces, indicating a source of water underground.

A man uses dowsing rods, which he believes are affected by the Earth's magnetic field, to locate unmarked graves. He believes that disturbed earth from a burial creates a different magnetic field ...