| 单词 | water witch |
| 例句 | “My father threw me down a well the day I was bom, but I was so ugly that the water witch who lived down there spat me back.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “He knows more about water than anybody around here. He’s a water witch and a well-digger too. He’ll tell you. He’s put down half the wells in this part of the valley.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She was dubbed the “water witch” by her adversaries. After a bitter fight, Southern California's water kingpin has a new leader 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z How many rural dowsers or water witches are still around is an open question. Kansas dowsers use folk tradition to find bodies, water 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z They are hardwired in the fly—the fly is born with them, just as it’s born with nanchung and water witch and the associated hairs on its antennae. What the Mind of an Insect Can Teach Us About Thirst 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z In the old days, desperate ranchers hired dowsers and “water witches” who used twisted hazel twigs to locate underground springs. This is the way the world ends: Once-in-a-millennium drought a wakeup call for America 2014-03-30T18:30:00Z HELENA, Calif. — With California in the grips of drought, farmers throughout the state are using a mysterious and some say foolhardy tool for locating underground water: dowsers, or water witches. California farmers hire dowsers to find water 2014-03-03T02:12:52Z I took down the pail, seeming to take down an entire chorus of singing water witches with it, and retraced my steps to the house. Two Wyoming Girls and Their Homestead Claim A Story for Girls Ha, ha! old water witch of the mountains! The Trail of a Sourdough Life in Alaska Another channel is for moist air; that one is called water witch. What the Mind of an Insect Can Teach Us About Thirst 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z What if the whim should seize him to pipe a trill or a quaver to the water witches of the meadow, as Master Song Sparrow so often chooses to do? Our Bird Comrades Still, the consistent interest in water witches nationwide spurred the U.S. California farmers hire dowsers to find water 2014-03-03T02:12:52Z However, it was not so much his power to find water that strengthened the faith of people in the water witch. Blue Ridge Country Well, suh," he went on, the long mustache twitching, "one of the fellahs down there was a water witch. Land of the Burnt Thigh Mr. Reed's tone became impressive: "I am—a water witch." The Dude Wrangler Besides, he was afraid that the water witch would enchant him and draw him down. Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales I want to tell you about your boat and about the water witch that haunted you. The Scotch Twins Before morning broke, the water witch came carrying the lost child. Blue Ridge Country But finding expert water witches was almost as difficult as finding water. Land of the Burnt Thigh Again there would be a doubting Thomas who sought to test the water witch’s power by stealing away the peach branch and dropping in its place a pebble. Blue Ridge Country At last someone said, “Could be a water witch might have knowing to find a lost child!” Blue Ridge Country But the water witch got there ahead of the varmints!” Blue Ridge Country After that more than one sought out the water witch. Blue Ridge Country |
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