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 ...

He hands them a forked stick or two L-shaped rods and teaches long lines of curious onlookers just how to go about finding underground water. Schaffer is a water witch, a diviner, a dowser. He ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thames Water engineers working on a leak in Holloway, north London. (PA) Thames Water is still using the ancient dowsing method to ...

Re your article “Water firms admit they still use ‘medieval’ dowsing rods” (22 November): in the 1950s, our family lived on a farm in an isolated part of northern Somerset. The farmer submitted an ...