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Article: The practice (and polemics) of water witching.(thetechnologybenchmark)(Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority)
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- December 1, 2005
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Dowsing is the action of a person--called the dowser--using a rod, stick
or other device ... to locate such things as underground water, hidden
metal, buried treasure, oil, lost persons or golf balls, etc. Since
dowsing is not based upon any known scientific or empirical laws or
forces of nature, it should be considered a type of divination and an
example of magical thinking. The dowser tries to locate objects by
occult means.
--from The Skeptic's Dictionary
by Robert Todd Carroll, PhD
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