Back outside on the streets of Portland, I spun around as uselessly as a dowsing rod.
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Her technique is less wispy here, as she depicts some form of broomstick dowsing rod combo on which five women ride.
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The fork jerked and then veered like a dowsing rod toward the right pocket where it found the bulge of the .22.
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If she seemed to be, as Mr. Lubow puts it, "a dowsing rod for anguish," there were also many satisfactions in her life.
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Being a dowsing rod for disappointments, moreover, appears to be a curiously stable attribute, a "sticky" trait that is transported but not transmitted and doesn't bow to shifting social norms.
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Pity the title character in "The Astonished Woodchopper" who finds himself — while eavesdropping like "a dowsing rod, having located water" — in the crossfire of a fraternal argument at a wedding.
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The practice, whose stated purpose is to divine water or other things located underground or concealed within something else, involves holding a special device (like a dowsing rod or a divining rod) and letting the ideomoter effect cause your hand to "mysteriously" point to the location of the desired object or substance.
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"It could be a demon, but more likely and more common, it's the manifestation of a bad situation, perhaps a murder or a rape or some other trauma, and that energy has stuck to the doll vessel," Blowers said that to determine whether the doll is haunted, the Madonias could've used a K-II EMF (electromagnetic field) meter, a pendulum, or a dowsing rod, as each of those instruments are believed to react to vessels that contain spirits.
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Maby with physicist T. Bedford Franklin wrote the book The Physics of the Dowsing Rod (1939).Gardner, Martin. (1957). Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science. Dover Publications. p. 103.
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Eleven-year-old Coraline Jones and her parents, Mel and Charlie, move into an old mansion that has been divided up and is now known as the Pink Palace Apartments. Due to her parents struggling to complete their gardening catalog, Coraline is often left alone. While using a dowsing rod she plucked from a bush in the garden, attempting to find a well nearby, she meets the landlady's grandson, Wyborne "Wybie" Lovat, and the feral Black Cat who follows him around. Wybie informs Coraline that her dowsing rod is poison oak, which gives her a rash on her palm.
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Beginning around the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 CE), the fuji method and written characters changed from "support the sieve" (spirit-writing using a suspended sieve or winnowing tray) to "support the planchette" (directing a stick or stylus, typically made from a willow or peach branch, and roughly resembling a dowsing-rod).
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Often the branches are grasped palms down. The dowser then walks slowly over the places where he suspects the target (for example, minerals or water) may be, and the dowsing rod is expected to dip, incline or twitch when a discovery is made. This method is sometimes known as "willow witching".
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Soon, he and Beate fall in love. One night, they see Svetelenz looking for the treasure with a dowsing rod. Beate convinces Arno that he should find the treasure in order to marry her. Arno deducts that a treasure dating from the Ottomans time can only be hidden in the foundations and soon finds the place where it seems to be hidden.
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Josh becomes close with a local woman, Glory, and her son Aaron. Swan and Robin begin to fall in love. Aaron figures out how to use the dowsing rod, Crybaby, and it indicates a source of fresh untainted water. The man with the apple tree drives into town with a truckload of ripe apples and tosses them to a happy crowd.
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The Guardian. and also by some in the dowsing community. The dowsing apparatus is known to amplify slight movements of the hands caused by a phenomenon known as the ideomotor response: people's subconscious minds may influence their bodies without consciously deciding to take action. This would make the dowsing rod susceptible to the dowsers's subconscious knowledge or perception; but also to confirmation bias.Hyman, R; Vogt, E. Z. (1968).
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Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff by Eduard Eichens, 1841 A dowser by Pierre le Brun Title of the magazine Wünschelruthe, 1818 Lead page with editorial poem Leaf and golden cover from the first Edition of Eichendorff’s Poems (Gedichte), 1837 Wünschelrute (dowsing rod) is one of the most famous poems by Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, major poet of the German Hochromantik ("High Romantics").J. A. Cuddon: The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms & Literary Theory, revised by C. E. Preston. England 1999, p. 770.
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ATSC claimed that the device could, from long range, effectively and accurately detect various types of explosives, drugs, ivory, and other substances. The device has been sold to 20 countries in the Middle East and Asia, including Iraq and Afghanistan, for as much as US$60,000 each. The Iraqi government is said to have spent £52 million on the devices. Investigations by the BBC and other organisations found that the device is little more than a "glorified dowsing rod" with no detecting ability.
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"The first significant "scientific" study of the subject was made in 1891 by Sir William F. Barrett, professor of physics at the Royal College of Science, Ireland. The Dowsing Rod, by Barrett and Theodore Besterman, published in 1926, is one of the leading references on the subject. The book's thesis is that the turning of the rod is due to unconscious muscular action on the part of the dowser, who possesses a clairvoyant ability to sense the presence of water."Stein, Gordon. (1996).
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Tours of the house often make reference to the possibility of ghostly activity, and in their book The Ghost Chronicles, self-proclaimed "medium" Maureen Wood and self-proclaimed "paranormal scientist" Ron Kolek describe experiencing ghostly events in the house. However, investigator of claims of the paranormal Joe Nickell reports that these claims are based upon either unverifiable personal feelings of a ghostly presence or the use of well-known and well-understand techniques like table-tipping that, like ouija board and dowsing rod effects, involve the ideomotor effect rather than the presence of a ghostly spirit.
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1942: George Casely uses a hazel twig to attempt to find water on the land around his Devon farm Traditionally, the most common dowsing rod is a forked (Y-shaped) branch from a tree or bush. Some dowsers prefer branches from particular trees, and some prefer the branches to be freshly cut. Hazel twigs in Europe and witch-hazel in the United States are traditionally commonly chosen, as are branches from willow or peach trees. The two ends on the forked side are held one in each hand with the third (the stem of the Y) pointing straight ahead.
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He made a statistical study of the probability of finding oil, and included it in one Bulletin; it turned out that ANY method, even flipping a coin, will generally be right if it predicts "No Oil Here"... if you spend a fortune drilling, it will be a "dry hole". Then there were the practitioners of sympathetic magic, who naturally were attracted to petroleum prospecting by the hope of fantastic wealth. Most had no technical education and fell under immediate suspicion through their misuse of technical terms; some written claims were laughable. One man had attached a razor blade to a coat-hangar dowsing rod "to cut the lines of force".
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