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THE April number of Discovery contains an article on the divining rod by E. Christie which gives a detailed account of methods adopted by the author hi searching for water and certain metals. It ...

Updated 7 a.m. Wednesday Most of the major water companies in the United Kingdom use dowsing rods — a folk magic practice discredited by science — to find underwater pipes, according to an Oxford Ph.D ...

RECENT correspondents have not referred to the views that place the use of the divining rod in the category of ‘psychological automatisms’ like the use of planchette or divination by a ring suspended ...