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 ...

BOTH the subject and the method of treatment of the Theory of Water Finding by the Divining Rod, by Mr. B. Tompkins, W.F., are so unlike what are usually met with by those gentlemen whom you, Mr.

NEW YORK (AP) Connect beat Divining Rod by a head at the end of a stretch duel Saturday in the $500,000 Cigar Mile at Aqueduct. A late developing 3-year-old facing older horses for the first time in a ...

THIS is a very ambitious book: its aim is to provide a much-needed physical explanation of dowsing and to improve its technique on scientific lines and, at the same time, to present a coherent ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Divining Rod took charge entering the stretch to win the $250,000 Coolmore Lexington on Saturday at Keeneland and earn a few more points toward the Kentucky Derby. The dark brown ...

Dowsing rods can & do work in a very specific instance - it's an old plumber trick to use metal coat hangers, cut & bent into 90 degree shapes and held slightly between fingers to find iron pipes ...

CEDAR FALLS -- The question in “Call the Courier” recently about the effectiveness of divining rods over electronic sensors reminded me of my days as a ditch-digger for a Princeton, Ill., gas company ...

Young Maryland stallion Divining Rod , a classic-placed son of Tapit owned by Gainesway Farm, Roy and Gretchen Jackson's Lael Stable, and Country Life Farm, is represented by his reported first foal, ...

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