What is Water-Witching?
The practice of dowsing has been around since ancient times and is still practiced, although scientifically it is reputed as having no merit or validity whatsoever. Cited are the instances of incorrect results or, -how can a twig find • a) water • b) metal/minerals, or • c) buried caverns/void space using just the same inert tool? It is like using a wind-vane to correctly determine that yes, the wind is blowing. But using the same wind-vane to determine what temperature the air is? Or what the air is composed of? It won’t work. It is the wrong tool for that purpose. Therefore by extrapolation, the notion of the divining rod’s ability to locate water, or metal, mineral or subterranean cave, must also be incorrect, seems to be the dismissive scientific view. If I tried to find water using a divining rod and found a vein of gold instead, -that would not prove that water-witching finds underground water. And the converse would also be true. -Search for gold using a forked stick but find a
