Do you think people can find water with dowsing?

Question

Can a pendulum, forked twig etc...be used to locate water or other things?

you're all living in cuckoo land, did you know that?

Answer 1

Gomer
YEP iT SHORE DOES WORK

My pappy does that for a living
He goes out and finds water for our neighbors AND KINFOLK to hook up their outhouses and inside plumbing too

Say hey to Andy

Answer 2

It hasn't been shown to be true by science.

Possible explanations are:


Skeptics of dowsing and many of dowsing's supporters believe that dowsing apparatus have no special powers, but merely amplify small imperceptible movements of the hands arising from the expectations of the dowser.[5] This psychological phenomenon is termed the ideomotor effect. Some supporters agree with this explanation, but maintain that the dowser has a subliminal sensitivity to the environment, perhaps via electroception, magnetoception, or telluric currents.[5] These explanations give rise to the classification of dowsing as pseudoscience. Other dowsers[5] cannot explain the source of their powers apart from the paranormal, such as paranormal auras, or as a matter of faith.

Lots of info on dowsing at site below. Darn, you made me thirsty now.

Answer 3

It's hard to tell how it works but it obviously does work most of the time - if it didn't, people wouldn't use it as a way to locate water. Nature is a very complicated thing and there are all sorts of strange phenomena that defy current scientific thought. This does not make dowsing absolutely real nor does it make it absolutely false. I'm sure that there's some sort of explanation as to why dowsing works - the dowser "senses" water, the dowsing stick is drawn to water, sheer dumb luck, etc.

Answer 4

dowsing is the practice of holding a forked stick or in the case of more modern dowsers, metal rods (coat hangers). they then walk around an area and the forked stick will point down when you're over water. or the coat hangers will cross each other.... It basicall falls into the same category as ghosts, psychics, magic, etc. some people believe in it, but there is no hard science to back up that it works, or how it could possibly work.

Answer 5

Yes, water-witching. You can use a pendulum or even brass coat hangers shaped like an L. Lightly hold the smaller part of the L, one in each hand, after making sure they are completely straight. Dowsing is a timeless art that can be used for finding lost objects, lay lines, water and countless other things. Sometimes it comes naturally and other times practice makes perfect. Good luck!

Answer 6

Dowsing does work; I use two metal coat hangers bent at 90 degrees; stuck in two soda straws so that they can swing freely. I can locate water, electric cables pipes etc. Try it; it's fun.

Answer 7

Funny story, my mother has actually done it with the forked twig thing. Don't ask me how in the hell it works, but I've seen it happen.

Answer 8

Always wasa big skeptic until I had seen it done.

And by reasonably minded men, not kooks.

Answer 9

100% YES


i bought a pendulum yesterday...it's cool...

Answer 10

dowsing has been done for centuries; yes, it works.