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The Magic of Dowsing Keeps Holding On

By Sasha von Oldershausen — 2019

In West Texas, a century of scientific debunking hasn’t convinced well-drillers to give up old beliefs.

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Urban New Agers Have Taken Over the Art of Dowsing

Once an arcane rural art, used almost exclusively to find water, dowsing has been taken over by urban New Agers who use it to make any and all kinds of decisions, from what movie to rent to whether a person is a potential partner. For most, the forked stick has given way to a pendulum.

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Jack Hope
1996
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Finding Water with a Forked Stick May Not Be a Hoax

One of the longest-running of these disagreements centers on dowsing, a supposed sixth sense that enables people to find underground water using a forked branch, pendulum or pair of bent wires. There is no scientific reason why dowsing should work.

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Popular Mechanics
2004
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