A Y- or L-shaped twig or rod, called a dowsing rod, divining rod or witching rod is sometimes used during dowsing. Dowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, gravesites, and many other objects and materials, as well as so-called currents of earth radiation (Ley lines), without the use of scientific apparatus.
No a rod is for water. Animals are not water.
Dowsing
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There are similar, related verbs:douse - to inundate with water (as with a campfire)dowse - to search for underground water, usually by psychic means (divining rod)
Dowsers use diving rods.
Divining or dowsing rods are used by many people. They are most commonly associated with people dowsing for water, but can be used to find any number of other things including but not exclusively to answers, graves, lost things, and treasure.
William Fletcher Barrett has written: 'The divining-rod' -- subject(s): Dowsing, Divining-rod 'Dreams And Crystal Visions' 'Death-bed visions' -- subject(s): Parapsychology, Deathbed hallucinations, Case studies 'The So-Called Divining Or Dowsing Rod' 'The Physical Phenomenon Of Spiritualism - Pamphlet' 'Thought Transference And The Hypnotic State' 'Notes of Ten Evening Lectures on Heat' -- subject(s): Heat 'Practical physics' -- subject(s): Physics, Laboratory manuals 'Evidence Of Survival After Death' 'Automatic Writing And Cross Correspondence' 'Seeing Without Eyes' -- subject(s): Spiritualism 'The Subliminal Self'
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It is called cartography.
By geological survey and by divining. In Africa in the dry season they often watch large animal behavior to find underground water. Where the animal scratches at the ground is a fair indication where water can be found.
get yourself a fishing rod and use it whilst near water. First, make sure you own a rod (Old Rod, Good Rod or Super Rod). Then face an area of water and select the rod from your bag.
Tom Graves has written: 'Pullers' 'The dowser's workbook' -- subject(s): Dowsing, Divining-rod, Problems, exercises 'How to Break into a Computer Career Through Self-Study' 'Real enterprise-architecture'