Can You Make a Dowsing Rod?
For an Easy Divining Rod, Try Cutting a Wire Coat Hanger into Two Equal Pieces – or Straightening Two Coat Hangers by Untwisting Their Hooks. Choose the Rod...
For an easy divining rod, try cutting a wire coat hanger into two equal pieces – or straightening two coat hangers by untwisting their hooks. Choose the rod material based on purpose and availability. Brass and copper are especially popular because they don't rust.
What can I use as a dowsing rod?
Other dowsers may use keys, wire coat hangers, pliers, wire rods, pendulums, or various kinds of elaborate boxes and electrical instruments. In the classic method of using a forked stick, one fork is held in each hand with the palms upward.
How do you make a witching stick with water?
Cut a fresh forked stick of peach, hickory, dogwood, cherry—or whatever works for you—and experiment with overhand and underhand grips while walking back and forth over a known water vein, underground spring, well, etc. When you feel the divining rod begin to bend, hold it tightly so it will not roll in your hands.
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