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Dowsing (Divining Rods, Pendulums, Radiesthesia, Rhabdomancy, Water Witching)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

CHAPTER

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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