dowsing
Sign in to saveAlso known as divining, water witching, doodlebugging, water finding
thumb|right|A dowser, from an 18th-century French book about superstitions
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22 sectionsContents
- History
- Early divination and religion
- Modern dowsing
- Postulated mechanisms
- Fraudulent security devices
- Equipment
- Dowsing twig
- Pair of rods
- Pendulum
- Studies
- Kassel 1991 study
- Betz 1990 study
- Scientific reception
- Ideomotor phenomenon
- Pseudoscience
- In pop culture
- Notable dowsers
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|right|A dowser, from an 18th-century French book about superstitions
Dowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate many types of object and material without the use of a technical equipment or scientific apparatus. It can be applied to seek for ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, claimed radiations (radiesthesia), gravesites, or malign "earth vibrations". It is also known as divining (especially in water divining), doodlebugging (particularly in the United States, in searching for petroleum or treasure) or water finding, or water witching (in the United States).