VICTOR - The cemetery of this abandoned Erath County community came alive recently with grave-seekers. People slowly shuffled through the rural cemetery with a metal divining rod in each hand, waiting ...

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 Oxford Ph.D ...

LYNDONVILLE, Vt. – Dowsing — an ancient practice of identifying underground water sources and lost objects — has a devoted following. More than 300 people are attending the 55th annual convention held ...

Dowsing, also known as witching, has a history spanning over 500 years. It involves using copper rods or sticks to locate water, minerals, or utility lines underground. In the 1500s, the Catholic ...

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 be ...

So how did I end up with a city employee traipsing across my front yard with divining rods on a recent evening, searching for underground water? The answer begins with a boneheaded blunder on my part.

In her new book Opening Heaven’s Door, journalist Patricia Pearson focuses on paranormal experiences dying people have had. But there was this tidbit about how the kind of people you would expect to ...

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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 ...

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 ...