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Dowsing meaning
The practice of seeking water or other substances (usually liquid) with the aid of a forked stick or similar pointing device, as believed by some practitioners to derive from supernatural power.
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A Y- or L-shaped twig or rod, called a dowsing rod, divining rod (Latin: virgula divina or baculus divinatorius), a "vining rod" or witching rod is sometimes used during dowsing, although some dowsers use other equipment or no equipment at all.
The friends took their dowsing rods, compass and camera to the shores of the famous Scottish loch and asked if any spirits are present.
Through contact with a geophysicist, Stucky asked how dowsing might work in detecting things like that.
As early as 1518 Martin Luther listed dowsing for metals as an act that broke the first commandment (i.
It can be qualitative (such as shapes, proximities, etc.): for example, dowsing (a form of rhabdomancy ) developed from this type of divination.
King compares his uncle's successfully dowsing for water using the bough of an apple branch with the sudden realization of what he wanted to do for a living.
None of them was more reliable than chance. citation via citation A 1979 review examined many controlled studies of dowsing for water, and found that none of them showed better than chance results.
Of the 43 pre-selected and extensively tested candidates at least 37 showed no dowsing ability.
The dowser then walks slowly over the places where he suspects the target (for example, minerals or water) may be, and the dowsing rod dips, inclines or twitches when a discovery is made.