Dowsing uses a stick known as a dowsing or divining rod to help you find water on your land.
Witching stick to find water.
Dowsing water witching divining and doodlebugging are all names for the practice of locating groundwater by walking the surface of a property while holding a forked stick a pair of l shaped rods a pendulum or another tool that responds when the person moves above a location that will yield an adequate flow of water to a drilled well see figure 1.
Some call it the gift others refer to it as dowsing doodlebugging or water witching the practice of locating water underground using a forked stick.
The history of dowsing.
No matter what the origin divining or dowsing or witching for water is practiced all over the world and despite scientific ridicule water witches still flourish today.
Grandpa shutterstock dowsing is an unexplained process in which people use a forked twig or wire to find.
One of the longest running of these disagreements centers on dowsing a supposed sixth sense that enables people to find underground water using a forked branch pendulum or pair of bent wires.
He held a forked.
Cut a fresh forked stick of peach hickory dogwood cherry or whatever works for you and.
According to the american society of dowsers divining the location of water dates back many millennia.
Dowsers often achieve good results because random.
Dowsing is a pseudoscience there is no scientific evidence that it s any more effective than random chance.
A forked twig is the most common form of a dowsing or divining rod.
Before technology was developed that would allow us to see into the ground people depended on dowsing also known as divining or water witching to find water wells metals gemstones and even missing people and unmarked graves.