geomantic ('geo' referring to earth) divination, or methods of locating and diagnosing unseen energies; especially those located underground. Dowsing has been used to locate underground water for thousands of years, and can also be used to locate other influences at a site or on a plan or map. The practice of dowsing can also discover other concealed information.
Divination where a forked stick or divining rods are used to locate water or precious minerals.
Dowsing is a method of asking questions of a location. Most often people ask for water locations. Yet in antiquity people who built monuments (and houses) used dowsing to as for the best location for the building, for the entrance, and for the room arrangement. The purpose, the intent of dowsing is to put us in touch with ourselves, with our environment, and with the interaction between the two. Often certain implements--L-rods, pendulums, bobbers, Y-rods--are useful, for they can stimulate our awareness of ourselves. (Swan, 1991, p. 235)
The use of a pendulum or forked stick to find the actual location of a person, place, thing, or element. This method has been known to become individualistic with people. Objects such as stones on the back of the hand, a tall glass of water (water dowsing), parallel steel wires and dried leaves or petals. The last is not found often, but is a method working with the wind where the leaves or petal would blow off in a direction. Doing this a number of time would cause a triangulation and show "the center spot".
the process of finding water or lost objects by using a pair of L shaped metal rods.
The ability to be able to find something underground by following a "divining rod", usually in the form of a short stick, in the shape of a "Y". The dowser holds the forked end and uses the single end as a pointer.
Finding water, oil, energy changes or other substances by holding a rod or pendulum and noting how it moves.
Using a forked stick or wire to locate underground water.
searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod
A behavioral automatism in which, generally, a “dowsing rod” (also called a divining rod: often a forked twig but sometimes a pendulum) is employed to locate subterranean water, oil, and so on, or other concealed items by following the direction in which the rod turns in the user's hands. Some practitioners use their bare hands with no gadget.
The technique a New Ager uses to locate misplaced Evian bottles or find Miata keys in the sand. Also: to dowse
The search for underground energy by detecting changes in the behaviour of metal rods or a Y-shaped wooden twig held in the hand. The phenomenon has defied explanation but seems to work......somehow.
Also known as radiosthesia. Dowsing is the art of using a forked stick, or wire, or some other object to focus in on locating anything from water, oil, explosives, caves, minerals, mines, or tunnels.
Using pendulum or rod to communicate with the body consciousness. Same mechanism as in muscle testing or applied kinesiology.
The paranormal detection of underground water or mineral deposits ( orlost persons and objects) using a divining rod or pendulum.
using something like a pendulum or rods to get answers to yes or no questions
the act of finding locations of underground water (and other liquids such as oil) through the use of rods normally made out of metal.
The ability to find underground water, oil, coal, minerals, archaeological sites, or lost or missing persons and objects using a divining rod or pendulum.
the use of an object, such as a stick, to find something or someone, and sometimes to find an answer to a question
A traditional means of finding underground water, energy fields and other materials by using divining rods or a pendulum.
Using a pendulum or dowsing rods to receive answers from the universe. This takes practice and people many times get false responses. Correct answers are based on how the question is asked, the energy of the device used, the energy of the person asking the question, etc.
To be able to find underground water and/or underground minerals. ECTOPLASM - A product of psychic energy that usually forms as a fog like mist, solid white mass, or vortexes.
A technique in which a specialized psychic - called the dowser - uses a rod, stick, pendulum or other tool to locate such things as underground water, hidden metals, buried treasure, oil, or sometimes lost persons or objects. Even though this ancient practice is not based upon any known scientific laws, the fact that so many dowsers succeed has led to theorizing and scientific experiments, some of which support the idea. Research, however, is continuing.
The skill of divining for underground sources of water or other practical and spiritual matters by means of a divining rod or variety of other means, such as the pendulum, or even by device less techniques. Used to locate people, objects, or substances, and to diagnose illnesses.
Dowsing, sometimes called divining or water witching, is a generic term for practices which proponents claim empower them to find water, metals, gemstones and hidden objects over a piece of land or over a map. Usually this is done through fluctuations of apparatus such as a Y-shaped twig, rods or a pendulum. Some claim to need no apparatus at all but to 'feel' reactions.