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["Don Bowen" <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

> Maybe divining is not a skill you learn, but rather one that you
> uncover and practice.  Same as what you meant maybe. I have a sense
> that divining is something you either can do (most of us maybe) or
> can't do (those few with a truly unbelieving attitude included.)

My grandmother claimed you had to have the devil in you to witch water.  My
father could do it and showed me how.  I could never get the wand to move
like he did, maybe if I had kept it up.  We had a well drilling outfit and
he would witch the location and we always hit water.

As a side note, those wells were drilled in the fifties.  When I was in the
area a couple of years ago all were capped as were almost all other wells.
The problem is nitrate pollution.  The area in NE Missouri is heavy corn
country and a heavy user of nitrogen fertilizer.

Don Bowen  KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html