WATER WITCHING: Have you heard of dowsing? Maybe you've heard it called water witching, divining, or doodlebugging? Whatever the term, this practice is the ancient "gift" of finding water, metal, or ...

ST. HELENA, Calif. – With California in the grips of drought, farmers throughout the state are using a mysterious and some say foolhardy tool for locating underground water: dowsers, or water witches.

Practitioners of dowsing use rudimentary tools - usually copper sticks or wooden "divining rods" that resemble large wishbones - and what they describe as a natural energy to find water or minerals ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014, proprietor Marc Mondavi demonstrates dowsing with "diving rods" to locate water at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vern Tassey, a water witch, with his divining tools in an orange grove in Lindsay, Calif. (Photo: Holly Bailey/Yahoo News) LINDSAY ...

Dowsers do more than find water. Dowsing, also called water witching or divining, is an ancient art used to find the unknown, including the location of water or minerals, or unresolved health ...

ST. HELENA, Calif.—With California in the grips of drought, farmers throughout the state are using a mysterious and some say foolhardy tool for locating underground water: dowsers, or water witches.

ST. HELENA, Calif. — With California in the grips of drought, farmers throughout the state are using a mysterious and some say foolhardy tool for locating underground water: dowsers, or water witches.