
Dowsing (Divining Rods, Pendulums, Radiesthesia, Rhabdomancy, Water Witching)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The History of Dowsing
Dowsing has been around for a long time. There are claims that dowsing is at least 6,000 years old. People will point to some cave art from Africa of a couple of figures. It looks like one of them's holding a dowsing rod. But when you look carefully at the image itself and to my eyes and to some other people's eyes it doesn't look like a dowsed rod at all. And he does have the end of the arrow stick, which I want to write.
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Transcript

The practice of dowsing has been used for hundreds of years, at least, to find water, gold, oil, and more. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli talk to an expert on dowsing to ask what it is, what we know about it, and how it works.
