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 ...

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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 ...

DEAR BONNIE: Recently, I came across a woman on YouTube using dowsing rods to get a yes-or-no question answered from spirit. Can you tell me how this works and if it’s a good tool to work with or not?

THE review in NATURE (October 14, 1897, pp. 568, 569) of a publication relating to the “divining rod,” recalls to my mind a purely mechanical theory of that rod, which was given me years ago by a ...

When a pure-hearted scientist meets a phenomenon which he cannot explain, he humbly admits his ignorance, asserts his hope that future Science may be able to explain all things. But many a scientist ...

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