Posted by Alan Hakim on December 09, 2013 at 14:37:22 user awhakim.
In Reply to: Re: Titty's Dowsing posted by Richard K-M on December 09, 2013 at 13:02:31:
I went on a week's dowsing course at Marlborough College Summer School two years ago. We were issued with two L-shaped steel rods which we held pointing forward with the short part vertical in each hand. Our teacher said that you can use coathangers, but they are a bit light and can be blown by the wind. You can (of course) also use hazel twigs, but we were too late in the season.
Armed with these (and in my case, 100% scepticism) we started by identifying a drain under the road, but most of the week was spent studying ley-lines at Avebury. What happened was that as we walked slowly across the area we were investigating, the rods would spontaneously swing inwards as we crossed a line.
I remained somewhat doubtful - there are lots of ley-lines at Avebury - until the last day, when he took us to a field on the edge of the site, where just three standing stones were in a line, with a wider gap between two of them. I walked forward through the gap, looking neither to left nor right, until the rods swung inwards. I then looked right, and to my amazement, the two stones were in perfect alignment, so that I could only see the nearer one.
There is something in this dowsing stuff, and it certainly doesn't need help from the person doing it. Ask Titty.