From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!cires!harkins Newsgroups: net.misc Title: dowsing Article-I.D.: cires.1989 Posted: Mon Feb 21 13:27:31 1983 Received: Tue Feb 22 05:48:13 1983 when i was a kid, i learned how to find buried water pipes with bent coat hangers; a shovel proved the point! a dowser friend of mine and i chose the same spot (given the general area of say, 100 x 100 ft sq.) within five feet; i managed to dig a "well" by going down only three feet. the funny thing is, i just used the shovel itself for that one while she used the standard bent rods. i suspect that someone someday will figure out what sort of magnetic fields are involved and how they produce the phenomenon (at least that's what i think it); btw, they call it geomancy rather than dowsing these days. ernie harkins