Dowsing (English Wikipedia)
Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Dowsing" in English language version.
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- Barrett, William (1911). Psychical Research. New York and London: Henry Holt & Co. (N.Y.), Williams and Norgate (London). p. 171. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
- of Avila, Saint, Teresa of (1573). The book of the foundations of S. Teresa of Jesus of the Order of our Lady of Carmel, with the visitation of nunneries, the rule and constitutions. University of Toronto – Robarts Library: London, Baker. p. 116. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
- Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine) (May 26, 1876). "Curious myths of the Middle Ages". London, Rivingtons – via Internet Archive.
- Agricola, Georgius (1556). De Re Metallica (tr. Herbert Hoover, 1950, Dover Publications, New York ed.). Basel. pp. 38ff. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
- Barrett, William (1911). Psychical Research. New York and London: Henry Holt & Co. (N.Y.), Williams and Norgate (London). p. 170. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
Now, the colloquial German word for the rod was then schlag-ruthe or striking-rod; this, translated into the Middle English became the duschan or striking rod, and finally "deusing or dowsing rod".
- Stratmann, Francis (1891). A Middle-English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. p. 182. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
duschen, v., ? = M.L.G. duschen; =dweschen; strike, beat; dusched (pret.) Ar. & Mer. 5624; A. P. ii. 1538; dusched a doun ... hure fon Fer. 3068; see daschen, dusching, sb., tumbling; ... dinning and dusching of sinfulle PR. C. 7350.
- Barrett, William (1911). Psychical Research. New York and London: Henry Holt & Co. (N.Y.), Williams and Norgate (London). p. 170. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
To dowse or " strike " the sail is still a common expression in Cornwall
- Gregory, J. W. (1928). Water Divining. Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution. United States Government Printing Office. pp. 325–348.
- Ongley, P. (1948). "New Zealand Diviners". New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology. 30: 38–54. via Hines, Terence (2003). Pseudoscience and the Paranormal (Second ed.). Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. p. 420. ISBN 978-1-57392-979-0.
arstechnica.com (Global: 388th place; English: 265th place)
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- "Teach the Controversy: Dowsing". Ars Technica Videos. Archived from the original on 2019-04-10. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
bbc.co.uk (Global: 8th place; English: 10th place)
- Scientist finds UK water companies use 'magic' to find leaks Archived 2018-06-14 at the Wayback Machine, BBC Oxford, 21 November 2017. (retrieved 21 November 2017)
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- Michel Eugène Chevreul, De La Baguette Divinatoire du pendule dit explorateur at des table tournants au point de vue de l'histoire, de la critique, and de la méthode expérimentale, Paris, 1854. "Le père Gaspard Schott (jés.) considère l'usage de la baguette comme superstitieux ou plutôt diabolique, mais des renseignements qui lui furent donnés plus tard par des hommes qu'il considérait comme religieux et probe, lui firent dire dans une notation à ce passage, qu'il ne voudrait pas assurer que le demon fait toujours tourner la baguette." (Physica Curiosa, 1662, lib. XII, cap. IV, pag. 1527). See facsimile Archived 2023-09-05 at the Wayback Machine on Google Books
- Locke, John (1824). Some considerations of the consequences of lowering the interest, and raising the value of money. In a letter sent to a Member of Parliament, in the year 1691. Archived from the original on 5 September 2023. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
That four per cent. is not of the nature of the deusing-rod, or virgula divina, able to discover mines of gold and silver, I believe will easily be granted me.
- Skeat, Walter W. (2005). An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, Inc. p. 181. ISBN 978-0486317656. Archived from the original on 5 September 2023. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
DOWSE (3), to extinguish. (E.) A cant term; dowse the glim, i.e. to extinguish the light. Probably only a particular use of dowse (1), to strike. Possibly suggested by dout, to extinguish.
churchofjesuschrist.org (Global: 1,837th place; English: 1,046th place)
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- Marks, Ben. "Our Dad, the Water Witch of Wyoming". Collectors Weekly. Archived from the original on 2021-04-22. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
csicop.org (Global: 3,411th place; English: 2,303rd place)
- Wagner, H., H.-D. Betz, and H. L. König, 1990. Schlußbericht 01 KB8602, Bundesministerium für Forschung und Technologie. As quoted by Jim T. Enright Archived 2014-03-29 at the Wayback Machine in the Skeptical Inquirer.
- Enright, Jim T. (January–February 1999). "The Failure of the Munich Experiments". Skeptical Inquirer. CSICOP. Archived from the original on 2009-11-17. Retrieved 2006-11-14.
The researchers themselves concluded that the outcome unquestionably demonstrated successful dowsing abilities, but a thoughtful re-examination of the data indicates that such an interpretation can only be regarded as the result of wishful thinking.
docplayer.me (Global: low place; English: low place)
- Rolf Manne (2005). "Ønskekvist i snøskred – psevdovitenskap i praksis?". Pseudovitenskap og Etikk, published at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. p. 45. Archived from the original on 2018-01-26. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
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- Taylor, J. G.; Balanovski, E. (1978). "Can electromagnetism account for extra-sensory phenomena?". Nature. 276 (5683): 64–67. Bibcode:1978Natur.276...64B. doi:10.1038/276064a0. PMID 740020. S2CID 4316473.
- Enright, J. T. (1995). "Water dowsing: The Scheunen experiments". Naturwissenschaften. 82 (8): 360–369. doi:10.1007/s001140050198 (inactive 10 July 2025).
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025 (link) - Enright, J. T. (June 1996). "Dowsers lost in a Barn" (PDF). Naturwissenschaften. 83 (6). Springer Berlin / Heidelberg: 275–277. Bibcode:1996NW.....83..275E. doi:10.1007/BF01149601. ISSN 1432-1904. S2CID 8201640. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-28. Retrieved 2009-09-26.
- Huttunen P, Niinimaa A, Myllylä R (2012). "Dowsing can be interfered with by radio frequency radiation". Pathophysiology. 19 (2): 89–94. doi:10.1016/j.pathophys.2012.01.004. PMID 22365422.
- Marks, David F. (March 13, 1986). "Investigating the paranormal". Nature. 320 (6058). Nature Publishing Group: 119–124. Bibcode:1986Natur.320..119M. doi:10.1038/320119a0. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 3951553. S2CID 4329580.
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- Sharon A. Hill (2017-03-26). "15 Credibility Street #13". Doubtful News (Podcast). Retrieved 2017-04-07.
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- Konig, Robert; Moll, Jurgen; Sarma, Armadeo (January 1991). "Kassel Dowsing Test - Part 1". Skeptiker. Archived from the original on 2022-04-28. Retrieved 2021-05-26 – via Geotech - Technology for Treasure Hunting.
- Konig, Robert; Moll, Jurgen; Sarma, Armadeo (January 1991). "Kassel Dowsing Test - Part 2". Skeptiker. Archived from the original on 2021-05-26. Retrieved 2021-05-26 – via Geotech - Technology for Treasure Hunting.
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- California Farmers Hire Dowsers to Find Water Archived 2014-03-02 at the Wayback Machine, ABC news
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- As translated from one preface of the Kassel experiments, "roughly 10,000 active dowsers in Germany alone can generate a conservatively-estimated annual revenue of more than 100 million DM (US$50 million)". GWUP-Psi-Tests 2004: Keine Million Dollar für PSI-Fähigkeiten Archived April 10, 2005, at the Wayback Machine (in German) and English version Archived August 14, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
- GWUP-Psi-Tests 2004: Keine Million Dollar für PSI-Fähigkeiten Archived April 10, 2005, at the Wayback Machine (in German) and English version Archived August 14, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
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- Taylor, J. G.; Balanovski, E. (1978). "Can electromagnetism account for extra-sensory phenomena?". Nature. 276 (5683): 64–67. Bibcode:1978Natur.276...64B. doi:10.1038/276064a0. PMID 740020. S2CID 4316473.
- Enright, J. T. (June 1996). "Dowsers lost in a Barn" (PDF). Naturwissenschaften. 83 (6). Springer Berlin / Heidelberg: 275–277. Bibcode:1996NW.....83..275E. doi:10.1007/BF01149601. ISSN 1432-1904. S2CID 8201640. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-28. Retrieved 2009-09-26.
- Marks, David F. (March 13, 1986). "Investigating the paranormal". Nature. 320 (6058). Nature Publishing Group: 119–124. Bibcode:1986Natur.320..119M. doi:10.1038/320119a0. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 3951553. S2CID 4329580.
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- Lyman, Thomas G. (1967). "Water Dowsing as a Surviving Folk Tradition". Keystone Folklore Quarterly. 12: 137. Archived from the original on 2023-03-11. Retrieved 2022-06-25 – via HathiTrust.
highbeam.com (Global: 405th place; English: 256th place)
- FIX ME (could not access entire article) Claudia Sandlin (1989-11-30). "Divining Ways; Dowsers Use Ancient Art in Many Kinds of Searches". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2012-10-22.
[Louis Matacia] worked as a Marine Corps analyst at Quantico during The Vietnam War teaching Marines how to dowse...
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- "Fuzzle Trouble/Smurfette's Dancing Shoes", The Smurfs, 1981-12-05, retrieved 2025-11-17
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- "The Science Behind Dowsing: Fact or Fiction". 12 March 2025. Retrieved 30 December 2025.
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- Enright, J. T. (June 1996). "Dowsers lost in a Barn" (PDF). Naturwissenschaften. 83 (6). Springer Berlin / Heidelberg: 275–277. Bibcode:1996NW.....83..275E. doi:10.1007/BF01149601. ISSN 1432-1904. S2CID 8201640. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-28. Retrieved 2009-09-26.
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- William Bown; "Science: The physics of a dowsing pendulum Archived 2022-02-23 at the Wayback Machine", New Scientist, 6 October 1990.
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- Taylor, J. G.; Balanovski, E. (1978). "Can electromagnetism account for extra-sensory phenomena?". Nature. 276 (5683): 64–67. Bibcode:1978Natur.276...64B. doi:10.1038/276064a0. PMID 740020. S2CID 4316473.
- Huttunen P, Niinimaa A, Myllylä R (2012). "Dowsing can be interfered with by radio frequency radiation". Pathophysiology. 19 (2): 89–94. doi:10.1016/j.pathophys.2012.01.004. PMID 22365422.
- Marks, David F. (March 13, 1986). "Investigating the paranormal". Nature. 320 (6058). Nature Publishing Group: 119–124. Bibcode:1986Natur.320..119M. doi:10.1038/320119a0. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 3951553. S2CID 4329580.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- McCarney R, Fisher P, Spink F, Flint G, van Haselen R. (2002). Can homeopaths detect homeopathic medicines by dowsing? A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial Archived 2018-05-03 at the Wayback Machine. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 95: 189–191.
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- Camila Domonoske, U.K. Water Companies Sometimes Use Dowsing Rods To Find Pipes Archived 2017-11-22 at the Wayback Machine, The Two-Way, NPR, 21 November 2017.
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- Nordland, Rod (November 4, 2009). "Iraq Swears by Bomb Detector U.S. Sees as Useless". The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 15, 2011. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
timesmachine.nytimes.com
- "His Rod to Find Radium" (PDF). The New York Times. January 28, 1914. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-07-17. Retrieved 2010-07-13.
Otto Edler von Graeve, who locates water and minerals with a 'divining rod,' arrived yesterday from Germany on the George Washington, ...
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- "Guide for the Selection of Commercial Explosives Detection Systems for Law Enforcement Applications (NIJ Guide 100-99), Chapter 7. Warning: Do Not Buy Bogus Explosives Detection Equipment" (PDF). September 1999. pp. 71–72. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-02-27. Retrieved 2022-02-25.
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- Huttunen P, Niinimaa A, Myllylä R (2012). "Dowsing can be interfered with by radio frequency radiation". Pathophysiology. 19 (2): 89–94. doi:10.1016/j.pathophys.2012.01.004. PMID 22365422.
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- As translated from one preface of the Kassel experiments, "roughly 10,000 active dowsers in Germany alone can generate a conservatively-estimated annual revenue of more than 100 million DM (US$50 million)". GWUP-Psi-Tests 2004: Keine Million Dollar für PSI-Fähigkeiten Archived April 10, 2005, at the Wayback Machine (in German) and English version Archived August 14, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
- GWUP-Psi-Tests 2004: Keine Million Dollar für PSI-Fähigkeiten Archived April 10, 2005, at the Wayback Machine (in German) and English version Archived August 14, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
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- "Dowsing Machine". pokemon.com. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
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- Hyman, Ray. (2003). "How People Are Fooled by Ideomotor Action" Archived 2017-05-11 at the Wayback Machine. Quackwatch.
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- "Dowsing, Doodlebugging, and Water Witching". Association of Independent Readers and Rootworkers Wiki. Archived from the original on 12 October 2011. Retrieved 11 October 2011.
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- Taylor, J. G.; Balanovski, E. (1978). "Can electromagnetism account for extra-sensory phenomena?". Nature. 276 (5683): 64–67. Bibcode:1978Natur.276...64B. doi:10.1038/276064a0. PMID 740020. S2CID 4316473.
- Enright, J. T. (June 1996). "Dowsers lost in a Barn" (PDF). Naturwissenschaften. 83 (6). Springer Berlin / Heidelberg: 275–277. Bibcode:1996NW.....83..275E. doi:10.1007/BF01149601. ISSN 1432-1904. S2CID 8201640. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-28. Retrieved 2009-09-26.
- Marks, David F. (March 13, 1986). "Investigating the paranormal". Nature. 320 (6058). Nature Publishing Group: 119–124. Bibcode:1986Natur.320..119M. doi:10.1038/320119a0. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 3951553. S2CID 4329580.
skepdic.com (Global: 4,757th place; English: 4,726th place)
- "Dowsing (a.k.a. water witching)" Archived 2012-06-19 at the Wayback Machine. The Skeptic's Dictionary.
spookygeology.com (Global: low place; English: low place)
- Hill, Sharon A. (19 March 2017). "Witching for water". Spooky Geology. Archived from the original on 2017-03-20. Retrieved 2017-04-07.
straightforwardguidance.com (Global: low place; English: low place)
- Pellwel, Calvin E (May 19, 2022). "What Is Dowsing? - The Ancient Practice For Treasure Hunting". Archived from the original on March 26, 2023. Retrieved June 19, 2022.
theguardian.com (Global: 12th place; English: 11th place)
- "Bad vibrations: what's the evidence for geopathic stress?". the Guardian. 2015-08-20. Archived from the original on 2023-03-26. Retrieved 2022-11-18.
- Matthew Weaver, UK water firms admit using divining rods to find leaks and pipes Archived 2017-11-21 at the Wayback Machine, The Guardian, 21 November 2017.
- French, Chris. (2013). "The unseen force that drives Ouija Boards and fake bomb detectors" Archived 2017-06-20 at the Wayback Machine. The Guardian.
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- Whittaker, William E. "Grave Dowsing Reconsidered". Office of the State Archaeologist, University of Iowa. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
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- "Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape". Archived from the original on 2020-08-02. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
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- As translated from one preface of the Kassel experiments, "roughly 10,000 active dowsers in Germany alone can generate a conservatively-estimated annual revenue of more than 100 million DM (US$50 million)". GWUP-Psi-Tests 2004: Keine Million Dollar für PSI-Fähigkeiten Archived April 10, 2005, at the Wayback Machine (in German) and English version Archived August 14, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
- Pellwel, Calvin E (May 19, 2022). "What Is Dowsing? - The Ancient Practice For Treasure Hunting". Archived from the original on March 26, 2023. Retrieved June 19, 2022.
- "Bad vibrations: what's the evidence for geopathic stress?". the Guardian. 2015-08-20. Archived from the original on 2023-03-26. Retrieved 2022-11-18.
- "Dowsing, Doodlebugging, and Water Witching". Association of Independent Readers and Rootworkers Wiki. Archived from the original on 12 October 2011. Retrieved 11 October 2011.
- Lyman, Thomas G. (1967). "Water Dowsing as a Surviving Folk Tradition". Keystone Folklore Quarterly. 12: 137. Archived from the original on 2023-03-11. Retrieved 2022-06-25 – via HathiTrust.
- Hill, Sharon A. (19 March 2017). "Witching for water". Spooky Geology. Archived from the original on 2017-03-20. Retrieved 2017-04-07.
- Michel Eugène Chevreul, De La Baguette Divinatoire du pendule dit explorateur at des table tournants au point de vue de l'histoire, de la critique, and de la méthode expérimentale, Paris, 1854. "Le père Gaspard Schott (jés.) considère l'usage de la baguette comme superstitieux ou plutôt diabolique, mais des renseignements qui lui furent donnés plus tard par des hommes qu'il considérait comme religieux et probe, lui firent dire dans une notation à ce passage, qu'il ne voudrait pas assurer que le demon fait toujours tourner la baguette." (Physica Curiosa, 1662, lib. XII, cap. IV, pag. 1527). See facsimile Archived 2023-09-05 at the Wayback Machine on Google Books
- "Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape". Archived from the original on 2020-08-02. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
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- Locke, John (1824). Some considerations of the consequences of lowering the interest, and raising the value of money. In a letter sent to a Member of Parliament, in the year 1691. Archived from the original on 5 September 2023. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
That four per cent. is not of the nature of the deusing-rod, or virgula divina, able to discover mines of gold and silver, I believe will easily be granted me.
- Skeat, Walter W. (2005). An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, Inc. p. 181. ISBN 978-0486317656. Archived from the original on 5 September 2023. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
DOWSE (3), to extinguish. (E.) A cant term; dowse the glim, i.e. to extinguish the light. Probably only a particular use of dowse (1), to strike. Possibly suggested by dout, to extinguish.
- FIX ME (could not access entire article) Claudia Sandlin (1989-11-30). "Divining Ways; Dowsers Use Ancient Art in Many Kinds of Searches". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2012-10-22.
[Louis Matacia] worked as a Marine Corps analyst at Quantico during The Vietnam War teaching Marines how to dowse...
- Rolf Manne (2005). "Ønskekvist i snøskred – psevdovitenskap i praksis?". Pseudovitenskap og Etikk, published at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. p. 45. Archived from the original on 2018-01-26. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
- California Farmers Hire Dowsers to Find Water Archived 2014-03-02 at the Wayback Machine, ABC news
- Marks, Ben. "Our Dad, the Water Witch of Wyoming". Collectors Weekly. Archived from the original on 2021-04-22. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
- Scientist finds UK water companies use 'magic' to find leaks Archived 2018-06-14 at the Wayback Machine, BBC Oxford, 21 November 2017. (retrieved 21 November 2017)
- Matthew Weaver, UK water firms admit using divining rods to find leaks and pipes Archived 2017-11-21 at the Wayback Machine, The Guardian, 21 November 2017.
- Camila Domonoske, U.K. Water Companies Sometimes Use Dowsing Rods To Find Pipes Archived 2017-11-22 at the Wayback Machine, The Two-Way, NPR, 21 November 2017.
- Double-Blind Field Evaluation of the MOLE Programmable Detection System, Sandia National Laboratories Archived November 4, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- Nordland, Rod (November 4, 2009). "Iraq Swears by Bomb Detector U.S. Sees as Useless". The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 15, 2011. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
- "Guide for the Selection of Commercial Explosives Detection Systems for Law Enforcement Applications (NIJ Guide 100-99), Chapter 7. Warning: Do Not Buy Bogus Explosives Detection Equipment" (PDF). September 1999. pp. 71–72. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-02-27. Retrieved 2022-02-25.
- William Bown; "Science: The physics of a dowsing pendulum Archived 2022-02-23 at the Wayback Machine", New Scientist, 6 October 1990.
- Whittaker, William E. "Grave Dowsing Reconsidered". Office of the State Archaeologist, University of Iowa. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
- McCarney R, Fisher P, Spink F, Flint G, van Haselen R. (2002). Can homeopaths detect homeopathic medicines by dowsing? A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial Archived 2018-05-03 at the Wayback Machine. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 95: 189–191.
- GWUP-Psi-Tests 2004: Keine Million Dollar für PSI-Fähigkeiten Archived April 10, 2005, at the Wayback Machine (in German) and English version Archived August 14, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
- Konig, Robert; Moll, Jurgen; Sarma, Armadeo (January 1991). "Kassel Dowsing Test - Part 1". Skeptiker. Archived from the original on 2022-04-28. Retrieved 2021-05-26 – via Geotech - Technology for Treasure Hunting.
- Konig, Robert; Moll, Jurgen; Sarma, Armadeo (January 1991). "Kassel Dowsing Test - Part 2". Skeptiker. Archived from the original on 2021-05-26. Retrieved 2021-05-26 – via Geotech - Technology for Treasure Hunting.
- Wagner, H., H.-D. Betz, and H. L. König, 1990. Schlußbericht 01 KB8602, Bundesministerium für Forschung und Technologie. As quoted by Jim T. Enright Archived 2014-03-29 at the Wayback Machine in the Skeptical Inquirer.
- Enright, Jim T. (January–February 1999). "The Failure of the Munich Experiments". Skeptical Inquirer. CSICOP. Archived from the original on 2009-11-17. Retrieved 2006-11-14.
The researchers themselves concluded that the outcome unquestionably demonstrated successful dowsing abilities, but a thoughtful re-examination of the data indicates that such an interpretation can only be regarded as the result of wishful thinking.
- Enright, J. T. (June 1996). "Dowsers lost in a Barn" (PDF). Naturwissenschaften. 83 (6). Springer Berlin / Heidelberg: 275–277. Bibcode:1996NW.....83..275E. doi:10.1007/BF01149601. ISSN 1432-1904. S2CID 8201640. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-28. Retrieved 2009-09-26.
- Hyman, Ray. (2003). "How People Are Fooled by Ideomotor Action" Archived 2017-05-11 at the Wayback Machine. Quackwatch.
- French, Chris. (2013). "The unseen force that drives Ouija Boards and fake bomb detectors" Archived 2017-06-20 at the Wayback Machine. The Guardian.
- "Dowsing (a.k.a. water witching)" Archived 2012-06-19 at the Wayback Machine. The Skeptic's Dictionary.
- Radford, Benjamin. (2013). "Dowsing: The Pseudoscience of Water Witching". Live Science.
- "Teach the Controversy: Dowsing". Ars Technica Videos. Archived from the original on 2019-04-10. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
- "His Rod to Find Radium" (PDF). The New York Times. January 28, 1914. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-07-17. Retrieved 2010-07-13.
Otto Edler von Graeve, who locates water and minerals with a 'divining rod,' arrived yesterday from Germany on the George Washington, ...
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