Despite advanced technology, the practice of water witching—using a forked stick to indicate an underground source of water—persists in both rural and urban areas. Water Witching U.S.A. is a lively look at "dowsing," full of personal accounts, historical background, and data from controlled experiments and a nationwide survey. This study includes a collection of photographs, drawings, and historical woodcuts showing the tools, techniques, and early instances of dowsing, as well as cross-sectional views contrasting the dowser's explanation of groundwater with the geologist's.
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"If we hadn't been so desperate for water, and could have thought the situation over more coolly, I don't suppose we'd ever have got involved in our curious adventure with dowsing, or water witching." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
witching activity, water witching, involuntary cues, ideomotor action, primary suggestibility, dowsing reaction, magic pendulum, magical divination, one diviner, many diviners, agricultural magic, surface cues, dowsing works, forked twig, arid basins, locating water, water diviner, divining rod, water vein, seventh sense Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Henry Gross, Bridey Murphy, Lady Wonder, Kenneth Roberts, Clever Hans, Fence Lake, New England, New Mexico, Frank Brown, New York, Von Osten, Coastal Plains, Ruth Simmons, Cotton Center, Great Plains, New Zealand, Old American, Patience Worth, Unglaciated Central, Arid Basins, Mesa Verde, Water No Water Water, Fritz Jacoby, Henri Mager New!
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"If we hadn't been so desperate for water, and could have thought the situation over more coolly, I don't suppose we'd ever have got involved in our curious adventure with dowsing, or water witching." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
witching activity, water witching, involuntary cues, ideomotor action, primary suggestibility, dowsing reaction, magic pendulum, magical divination, one diviner, many diviners, agricultural magic, surface cues, dowsing works, forked twig, arid basins, locating water, water diviner, divining rod, water vein, seventh sense Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Henry Gross, Bridey Murphy, Lady Wonder, Kenneth Roberts, Clever Hans, Fence Lake, New England, New Mexico, Frank Brown, New York, Von Osten, Coastal Plains, Ruth Simmons, Cotton Center, Great Plains, New Zealand, Old American, Patience Worth, Unglaciated Central, Arid Basins, Mesa Verde, Water No Water Water, Fritz Jacoby, Henri Mager New!
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- Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. von Osten) (1907; English 1911) (Thoemmes Press - Classics in Psychology) (Vol 40) by Oskar Pfungst on 7 pages
- The Ghost Dance (Native American Series) by James Mooney on page 221, and Back Matter
- Fads and Fallacies by Martin Gardner in Back Matter
- Human Inference: Strategies and Shortcomings in Social Judgement by Richard E Nisbett in Front Matter
- Passions ordinaires by Christian Bromberger in Front Matter
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