Dowsing

[poliphilo]

Ailz has a witchy party trick where she dowses the number and sex of a person's children (already born or to come) by swinging a pendulum over their open palm. It works with both men and women- and I've never known her get it wrong. Here she is performing it with our niece, Jenny.

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[mamarose.livejournal.com]

I love chatting with unborn babies this way :)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Ah, you can do it too....:)

[mamarose.livejournal.com]

I picked up dowsing when I was on the road doing tarot readings. I am best with yes/no questions, but love it. I call this one of my parlor tricks, as once the pendulum starts swinging, it always draws a crowd.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I met a guy once who claimed to be able to detect underground anomalies- like wells or mineshafts- using maps.

[mamarose.livejournal.com]

Using maps? I wonder how accurate he was. I wonder how that works. So interesting.

My great grandfather could use a twig to dowse for water, which I still find fascinating. Though he did so by walking around, not over a map ;)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

He didn't do it commercially- and wasn't trying to sell himself; he was in fact rather reticent about his ability. Very strange. I never put him to the test- more's the pity.