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How do you locate an abandoned cemetery – one with no headstones, no markers, and no evidence at all of being a cemetery? You call in a witcher. I wrote recently about finding unmarked graves using high tech solutions. However, many people have been doing the same for years with decidedly low-tech apparatus.
A witcher is not a witch. In short, witchers are those who search for water, minerals, or other "disturbances" in the earth's magnetic lines. They are also called "dousers" or “dowsers,” and they use "divining rods" made of wood or copper or, occasionally, other materials.
Many people will tell you that witching doesn't work, that it's all hocus-pocus. There's only one problem: it has been demonstrated to work successfully hundreds of times. Dousing apparently is not 100% reliable but it does succeed in a high percentage of the attempts.
I have seen witchers or dowsers at work and have watched as they found water pipes with great accuracy. I know that dousing can find water, although I have no idea how or why. Now many people report, with claims of proof, that the same methods can be used to find graves.
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