I should add that another technique of dowsing was to let some kind of a (knotted?) rope drop or swing (I forget exactly how it works), and the number of drops indicates how many feet down the water for a well should be located. My uncle "Buss" Bilger employed this method in his drilling. Justin At 08:45 PM 1/28/2007, you wrote: >Gloria, > >You describe it as I have seen it, although I have seen two rods >cross in the normal way for the determination of sex. > >There are those who indicate that one can determine any number of >details about an individual gravesite by the use of dowsing rods. I >reserve judgment on this issue, but it has been hotly debated among >various members of our Clinton County Genealogical Society, and met >with great interest. The celebrated Randall Stover employed this >when he did his magnificent restoration of the Neidig-Hennig Cemetery >near Woodward, Haines Township, Centre County. Randall has very >interesting stories to tell about this adventure, which he chronicled >in a fascinating journal, which I believe is available through the >Penns Valley Historical Museum. Randall credits the restoration of >this cemetery with saving his life. It was chronicled in a big >write-up in the Centre Daily Times in the late 1990s. > >Somewhere, in the archives of our Society, is a videotape (largely >filmed by me) on a very cold day at the McCloskey Family Cemetery in >Chapman Township, Clinton County, near Hyner, circa 2000, of Dave >Wallace, Alan Black, and myself, working on such a dowsing >project. I'm sure Dave remembers this well. > >Justin > >At 07:06 PM 1/28/2007, you wrote: > >I will try to explain and make this short > >I was taught by a lady in TN. years ago and had kept it hush-hush for a long > >time. > > When going over a grave the rods will cross. Using one rod, I > can determine > >if the grave holds a male or female. > >I have dowsed old homesteads and have helped a county here in Ohio to > >determine if the cemetery plots are empty. > >What I do is a tool. I dowsed for an older lady who remembered her > >grgrgrandmother was buried on the old homestead, through the years the > >stones were moved and no one knew about this little family cemetery until we > >went out to the field and found 3 graves also uncovering a head stone that > >was her grgr aunt. > >Many years ago I would have been burned at the stake for doing what I do > >today <VBG> I am no witch (although my husband thinks I am at times), I do > >worship one Lord........Jesus Christ. > >I will have a web site about my grave dowsing hopefully by the end of the > >month (it is started, am waiting on photos). > >Gloria > > > > > >------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message