Dowsing (English Wikipedia)

Barrett, William (1911). Psychical Research. New York and London: Henry Holt & Co. (N.Y.), Williams and Norgate (London). p. 171. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
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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.

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"Teach the Controversy: Dowsing". Ars Technica Videos. Archived from the original on 2019-04-10. Retrieved 2019-04-10.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 1 November 2024).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (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.

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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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Double-Blind Field Evaluation of the MOLE Programmable Detection System, Sandia National Laboratories Archived November 4, 2009, at the Wayback Machine

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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.

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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.

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"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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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.

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"Dowsing (a.k.a. water witching)" Archived 2012-06-19 at the Wayback Machine. The Skeptic's Dictionary.

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Hill, Sharon A. (19 March 2017). "Witching for water". Spooky Geology. Archived from the original on 2017-03-20. Retrieved 2017-04-07.

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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.

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"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.
"Wiktionary entry for schlag". Archived from the original on 28 January 2018. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
"Wiktionary entry for ruthe". Archived from the original on 29 January 2018. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
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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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Divining-rod". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 333–334.
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Dowser and Dowsing" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 461.

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"Wiktionary entry for schlag". Archived from the original on 28 January 2018. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
"Wiktionary entry for ruthe". Archived from the original on 29 January 2018. Retrieved 13 January 2018.

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Gough, John Weidhofft (1930). The Mines of Mendip. Oxford University Press. p. 6. OCLC 163035417.
Randolph, Vance (2012). Ozark Magic and Folklore. Dover Publications. ISBN 978-1-306-33958-2. OCLC 868269974.
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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Randolph, Vance (2012). Ozark Magic and Folklore. Dover Publications. ISBN 978-1-306-33958-2. OCLC 868269974.