WATER WITCHING

by Mary 28 Replies latest jw friends

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  Mary

  Do you believe water witching actually works? I had lunch with an ex-Dub friend yesterday who told me that many years ago, when she was still a Witness, her landlord's son came over (they rented a farm) and he showed her that it did work. She had been fully prepared to say "Ha! See, it doesn't work!" but to her amazement, the damn wooden stick he was using started vibrating at one point, he called people in to dig and lo and behold they found water. He was surprised that she was surprised and told her that he and his dad and grandpa had been using water witching for years....

  Is there any scientific explanation for water witching? Does it really work??
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  daystar

  I don't know much about it directly, but found this in a quick google search - http://skepdic.com/dowsing.html
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  fullofdoubtnow

  I've heard of it, but never seen it done. There's an article about it here:

  http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi361.htm

  It has this little gem in it, telling us who can and can't master the technique;

  Marine Corps engineers at Camp Le Jeune brought a dowser in and studied his technique during the Viet Nam war. They wanted to find enemy tunnels and hidden arms. The fellow told them that anyone could master dowsing except "athiests, morons, disbelievers, or the mentally disturbed." Engineers reporting back to the Pentagon picked up that theme. The method, they allowed, could fall into communist hands; but that would be no problem, because communists were all athiests.
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  ballistic

  I can do this but only with beer. I've nop doubt divining works with water if you are really thirsty.
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  garybuss

  When I was 6, my dad had a well witched in 1950. I was there and I was a skeptic so the water dowser let me try the witch wands. He had two bent wires he held pointed straight out and at the point the wires crossed was the water location.
  
  I held the wires myself and walked into the target area and the wires crossed. It wasn't a trick. I couldn't hold the wires from NOT crossing.
  
  They got a good flowing sweet water well. I grew up drinking that water.
  
  
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  BCZAR2ME

  I grew up drinking that water.

  That explains a lot!

  bczar
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  uwishufish

  Gary's account of two bent wires is the method I was taught. The water co in rutherford co tn uses this method to find water lines. If you try it the wires will cross when you walk under a power line or over ground that has been disturbed such as when a trench has been dug and filled in. To make a pair of "witchers" take two coat hangers cut 18 in of wire from each. Bend them into an L shape 6 in on the short side. Hold the wires on the short side very loosely one in each fist. Arms at your side, elbows bent at 90 deg so that your forarms are parallel to the ground. The long side of the wire should also be parallel to the ground and be pointed in a forward direction. the wires should be able to turn freely in your hand when you pass through a magnetic feild it will cause the wires to point toward each other. running water, buried metal and power lines produce magnetic feilds.

  Give it a try

  Satan is not involved unless he is the originator of magnetism.
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  Asheron

  Wow...if any of you can do this go here and collect $1,000,000.00

  http://www.randi.org/research/index.html

  Good luck!

  Asheron
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  gumby

  Dowsing for water goes back thousands of years as shown in cave art..... and is even done in our time by some to find bodies, downed planes, etc.

  When a 400-foot hole comes up dry, it can drain the pocketbook some $10,000 bucks and many new property owners are eager to hedge their bets on a dowser before the digging begins.

  I also did it on our propert when I was a kid with wires bent and each wire was put in a coke bottle with one bottle held in each hand to find a broken water line that fed the horses.......and the wires crossed at the place where the underground pipe was everytime......otherwise we didn't have a clue where the pipe was exactly.

  Gumdowser
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  Carmel

  My father was adept at finding water. He did it with two welding rods with the coating removed and then bent at 90 degrees at one end to make a 4 inch "handle". He did it for free and was called out dozens of times to find water for farmers or people who bought a lot or acerage and wanted to know where to drill. I needed to locate a waterline that bisected a three acre lot I owned so a friend that I went to school with came over and used his "witching rods". It took him about two minutes to locate the line. I dug down about 24 inches and bingo, right on top of the plastic water line...

  No coincidence, but I don't know the physics associated with it.

  carmel