Locating underground water by use of a forked stick is a practice that has been known and used for centuries. Indeed, a European scholar named Georgius Agrocola published a treatise on the subject as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dowsing — the finding of underground water with a divining rod — is one of those esoteric arts you can see but still not quite believe, like yoga or mind reading. It has its violent partisans — the ...

A friend is giving a talk on dowsing this morning at the Petersham Public Library, and although I can't attend, just the mention of dowsing causes me to perk up. For those who don't know what dowsing ...

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 ...