Word: dowser
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...places where dowsers thrive, says Riddick, there is water almost everywhere. It does not exist as "veins" but in saturated sand or gravel called the "water table." Certain special conditions, such as sand so fine that it cannot be filtered, or hard rock near the surface, make well-digging undesirable. A dowser who is worth his salt can avoid such hostile spots without magical assistance. Anywhere else, he is almost sure to find at least a little water...
...pane. A gold reef appears like a black ridge. Diamonds give off individual vibrations. I cannot explain them." A Johannesburg mining syndicate was well content to let the explanations go, provided Pieter's sharp eyes continued to seek out treasures. They put the boy under contract as a dowser...
...bluff's surface was littered with fragments of pottery and alabaster, but these were modern for Egypt, perhaps 2,000 years old. Dr. Emery was not interested in them. He sized up the lay of the land. Then he pointed, like a "dowser" sensing a deep vein of water. "There's something big," he said, "and very old under there...
...German dowser told Dr. Browne that powerful rays come from the earth's centre, are absorbed by water, metals, oil. He thinks that his own nervous system, made peculiarly sensitive by an attack of tropical fever, reacts with violent muscular contractions to the absence of these rays...
...Browne then questioned German scientists. The majority answered that, with all humbuggery discounted, a large number of successes remained which could not be accounted for by luck or chance. Some favored the explanation of the late Sir William F. Barrett, British physicist, that dowsers have a subconscious power something like the unexplained homing instinct of birds. Others were inclined to believe the theory of Professor John Walter Gregory of University of Glasgow that dowsers learn to recognize certain topographical formations which accompany underground water. A famed British dowser, who had the ability as a child, is the Hon. David Bowes...