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Has anyone ever tried dowsing? Hubby has rekindled his fascination with metal detecting and has found numerous references to dowsing rods on some of the message boards he goes to. He made a pair of brass dowsing rods for me and I'm eager to try them out.
I had heard my dad talk about his grandfather who was a "water witch", a colloquial term for people who dowsed for water and other things in earlier eras.
Interestingly enough, my father-in-law was working with the state on a project to map out local cemeteries. The person the state sent down to work with him used dowsing rods to determine where unmarked graves were.
I'd like to know if anyone has any dowsing experience or can give me any tips on getting started.
I had heard my dad talk about his grandfather who was a "water witch", a colloquial term for people who dowsed for water and other things in earlier eras.
Interestingly enough, my father-in-law was working with the state on a project to map out local cemeteries. The person the state sent down to work with him used dowsing rods to determine where unmarked graves were.
I'd like to know if anyone has any dowsing experience or can give me any tips on getting started.
I have. I have my own dowsing rods.
I was thinking about trying dowsing some years back and while on a long bike ride I found two pieces of heavy copper wire. I took that as a sign.
I've had mixed results. While using the rods I definitely have rod movement. I can pass over a spot and they'll cross and as I continue they uncross. Back up and they cross again. Move off the spot and they uncross.
The only problem is digging where you used the rods. Like using a metal detector, you need permission before you start digging. Public or private property.
I picked up a book on dowsing. You're supposed to focus on the thing you're looking for. Whether it's water, bodies, booty, etc.... . Keep you mind clear and focused. Just walk around until you feel something or see the rods moving. When you get rod movement just triagulate until you locate.
The really good dowsers can get feelings on how far down the find is. Like water dowsers.
And if you're like Edgar Casey, you get right down to the foot.
I was thinking about trying dowsing some years back and while on a long bike ride I found two pieces of heavy copper wire. I took that as a sign.
I've had mixed results. While using the rods I definitely have rod movement. I can pass over a spot and they'll cross and as I continue they uncross. Back up and they cross again. Move off the spot and they uncross.
The only problem is digging where you used the rods. Like using a metal detector, you need permission before you start digging. Public or private property.
I picked up a book on dowsing. You're supposed to focus on the thing you're looking for. Whether it's water, bodies, booty, etc.... . Keep you mind clear and focused. Just walk around until you feel something or see the rods moving. When you get rod movement just triagulate until you locate.
The really good dowsers can get feelings on how far down the find is. Like water dowsers.
And if you're like Edgar Casey, you get right down to the foot.
I got a chance to play with the rods this weekend and I was surprised that they were definitely moving on their own! I'm anxious to try them out again when the weather clears up a bit. I'll have to see if I can pick up a book on the subject.
Yep, James has told me about the laws regarding metal detectors and such. We live on 25 acres, which had several home sites through the past 100 years or so, so we've got plenty of nifty spots to dig around!
Maybe I'll find Jean Laffitte's lost treasure!![[Laughing]](graemlins/lol.gif)
Yep, James has told me about the laws regarding metal detectors and such. We live on 25 acres, which had several home sites through the past 100 years or so, so we've got plenty of nifty spots to dig around!
Maybe I'll find Jean Laffitte's lost treasure!
When I was a child of nearly 5, my father had a friend come to our property (in a suburb of Des Moines, Iowa) to perform dowsing to seek a good place for a well, since we would need one on our 3 acre parcel before we could build and live there. This man used the forked branch of a willow tree, (freshly cut from someplace near the Des Moines River). He would put a bit of a twist on the fork which he held in both hands. When he walked over a good place for water, the branch turned downward very visably!! In the three acres, he found one place near the center of the property, and another along out fenceline at the front, by the road. Both gave strong reactions, but the one in the center looked best.
Since the strongest reaction was in the center area of the property, that is where the well was placed. My father struck water at just 40 feet below the surface!!
The greatest thing about this well is that it never went dry. Our neighbors around the area would have their wells go dry on Mondays (wash day for folks of that era! LOL) We allowed them to come and haul water from our well to help them get by until their own wells were working again. It was quite a sight... seeing them bringing their 55 gallon drums over to fill them at our well!
But, ever since then, I have never forgotten how well the dowsing worked while I watched, and my father told that story many times over the years. He could never believe how this fellow was so accurate in pinpointing the right place for our well.
I have never tried the dowsing rods myself, but I would like to try it some day! My husband got a metal detector for Christmas, and he has to get busy and learn to use it!!! I think it wil be fun!
Mare
Since the strongest reaction was in the center area of the property, that is where the well was placed. My father struck water at just 40 feet below the surface!!
The greatest thing about this well is that it never went dry. Our neighbors around the area would have their wells go dry on Mondays (wash day for folks of that era! LOL) We allowed them to come and haul water from our well to help them get by until their own wells were working again. It was quite a sight... seeing them bringing their 55 gallon drums over to fill them at our well!
But, ever since then, I have never forgotten how well the dowsing worked while I watched, and my father told that story many times over the years. He could never believe how this fellow was so accurate in pinpointing the right place for our well.
I have never tried the dowsing rods myself, but I would like to try it some day! My husband got a metal detector for Christmas, and he has to get busy and learn to use it!!! I think it wil be fun!
Mare