| 单词 | dowser |
| 例句 | His pistol wavered between the two white men like a dowser’s stick. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Mrs. Jarvis claims her sister is a legitimate dowser, and can find water for a “nominal fee.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Kidder, 58, thought the labyrinth should go on the side of her yard but chose to consult a dowser, someone who read the earth’s energy through wooden rods. Flower bed, patio table ... labyrinth? Winding paths are a new backyard trend. 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z As it turned out, Mr. Michele was perhaps not so much a savant as some kind of cultural dowser, wandering the landscape with a trusty witching wand. At Milan Men’s Week, the War Lives On 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Set in an Old West that feels like a film set, the novel is packed with whimsical “characters” and earnest séances and omens and dowsers and people who talk to the dead. Téa Obreht Follows Up an Acclaimed Debut With a Visit to the Old West 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z He writes, “Such certainty comes seldom, but when it comes it is as irresistible as the downward bending of a dowser’s twig.” Time Out: The Beauty of J. A. Baker’s “The Peregrine” 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Thompson said the craft is hundreds of years old, and that he’s a third-generation dowser who’s been at it for more than 40 years. Column: My broken sprinkler sent me on a quest. Can dowsers help us through the drought? 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Some dowsers dangle a Buddha pendant above a printed map or a laptop screen to find what they are looking for. Two Rods and a ‘Sixth Sense’: In Drought, Water Witches are Swamped 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z Peopled by wandering cults and water dowsers, Gold Fame Citrus shows us that perhaps the notions of “Shangri-La” and “Man-Made Hell on Earth” are two sides of the same ideological coin. Top 10 books of eco-fiction | Michael Christie 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Each dowser reacts differently to the unseen, Marshall said. Kansas dowsers use folk tradition to find bodies, water 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Donna Rizzo, a groundwater hydrologist and professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Vermont, said dowsers may be unconsciously using factors, such as topography, temperature and vegetation, to locate groundwater. Dowsers tap into far more than water at annual convention 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z “But these dowsers can be using some of the same information a hydrogeologist would use to identify potential drilling locations,” Parker said. Column: My broken sprinkler sent me on a quest. Can dowsers help us through the drought? 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Scientists say dowsers are often just lucky, looking for water in places where it’s already thought to be present. California farmers hire dowsers to find water 2014-03-03T02:12:52Z Experiments carried out under controlled conditions to test its accuracy have suggested that it only seems to "work" when the dowser has some unconscious knowledge of where the source is. VIDEO: Why do people still practice dowsing? 2013-11-29T00:06:21Z That the second personality of the dowser is able to deceive him is now explained, and his obvious honesty so influences non-critical observers that their credulity is no cause for wonder. Spiritualism and the New Psychology An Explanation of Spiritualist Phenomena and Beliefs in Terms of Modern Knowledge 2011-08-01T02:00:14.257Z In the following case, the best advice was obtained and some �1000 spent fruitlessly searching for an underground spring prior to the dowser's visit. Occultism and Common-Sense 2011-07-16T02:00:14.303Z Doug Hill said he’s hired Thompson five or six times over the years and the dowser has been right more than he’s been wrong. Column: My broken sprinkler sent me on a quest. Can dowsers help us through the drought? 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Franzia said the company uses many technologies to find water on its land, but turns to dowsers often and with great success. California farmers hire dowsers to find water 2014-03-03T02:12:52Z Several years ago, the claims of the modern "dowsers" were investigated by no less an authority than Professor W. F. Barrett, holding the chair of Experimental Physics in the Royal College of Science for Ireland. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day But as mining declined in Cornwall, the use of the dowser for searching for lodes almost disappeared, and was transferred to water-finding. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" The question is whether, after making every allowance for shrewdness of eye, chance, coincidence, and local geological knowledge, the dowser has any instinctive or supernormal power of discovering the presence of underground water. Occultism and Common-Sense 2011-07-16T02:00:14.303Z Hill said there were dowsers in his own family, and that he has used the witching sticks himself on occasion. Column: My broken sprinkler sent me on a quest. Can dowsers help us through the drought? 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z The nation’s fourth-largest winemaker, Bronco Wine, says it uses dowsers on its 40,000 acres of California vineyards, and dozens of smaller farmers and homeowners looking for wells on their property also pay for dowsers. California farmers hire dowsers to find water 2014-03-03T02:12:52Z That the twisting of the forked twig, or so-called divining rod, is due to involuntary muscular action on the part of the dowser. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day The best dowsers are said to have been generally more or less illiterate men, usually engaged in some humble vocation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" But directly that he came to the spots the dowser had found the twig showed vigorous signs of animation. Occultism and Common-Sense 2011-07-16T02:00:14.303Z The dowser told him where to drill, how deep to go and how many gallons per minute he’d be able to pump. Column: My broken sprinkler sent me on a quest. Can dowsers help us through the drought? 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z 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 Dismissing, therefore, the mere twisting of the forked rod, the question at issue is, how is the suggestion derived by the dowser that starts this involuntary muscular action? The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day It should be added that dowsers do not always use any rod. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" What then is the secret of the dowser's often remarkable success? Occultism and Common-Sense 2011-07-16T02:00:14.303Z As for my own water emergency, when I hired a plumber, he and I determined that my corroded underground pipe was not where the dowser had planted the blue flags. Column: My broken sprinkler sent me on a quest. Can dowsers help us through the drought? 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Dowsing has not held up well under scientific scrutiny, the agency said, adding that dowsers are often successful in areas where groundwater is abundant. California farmers hire dowsers to find water 2014-03-03T02:12:52Z The following cases are quoted from Professor Barrett's records as examples of the work of different professional "dowsers." Psychic Phenomena A Brief Account of the Physical Manifestations Observed in Psychical Research Is this due to any special faculty in the dowser, or has the twig itself anything to do with it? Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" To begin with it is a matter of common geological knowledge that the mode of distribution of underground water is very different from that imagined by the professional dowser. Occultism and Common-Sense 2011-07-16T02:00:14.303Z Is there anything to dowsing, and if so, might a battalion of dowsers help get us through the drought by identifying underground aquifers and streams? Column: My broken sprinkler sent me on a quest. Can dowsers help us through the drought? 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Bronco also owns more vineyard land in California than anyone else, and when it needs a new well there’s a good chance a dowser will be employed. California farmers hire dowsers to find water 2014-03-03T02:12:52Z A list of the names of "dowsers" is also given. Psychic Phenomena A Brief Account of the Physical Manifestations Observed in Psychical Research But the existence of the modern water-finder or dowser makes the divining-rod a matter of more than mythological or superstitious interest. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" But, as scientific investigation has shown all mesmerists and dowsers are not charlatans, so it has shown all mediums are not rogues. Occultism and Common-Sense 2011-07-16T02:00:14.303Z I asked Hope if I could be a dowser myself. Column: My broken sprinkler sent me on a quest. Can dowsers help us through the drought? 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z After about 40 feet, the rods quickly crossed and Mondavi — a popular dowser in the famous wine region — stopped. California farmers hire dowsers to find water 2014-03-03T02:12:52Z This list includes the names of about seventy professional "dowsers," and of nearly as many amateur "dowsers." Psychic Phenomena A Brief Account of the Physical Manifestations Observed in Psychical Research About the ship arrival Talent and the dowser. Talents, Incorporated Some 'dowsers,' we know, can detect subterranean water, by the sensations of their hands, without using a twig, or divining rod, and others can 'spot' gold hidden under the carpet, with the twig. Historical Mysteries Larry Bird, another Northern California dowser, told me his grandfather had “witching sticks,” and he picked up the craft. Column: My broken sprinkler sent me on a quest. Can dowsers help us through the drought? 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Such are the cases when people hold the rod for the first time and have never seen a dowser work, yet the rod turns, over water, to their great astonishment, etc. etc. Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2 Generally speaking, one or more, out of perhaps ten or twelve persons, discover, to their astonishment, that the twig curls up in their hands—at the same places at which it did with the dowser. Psychic Phenomena A Brief Account of the Physical Manifestations Observed in Psychical Research She'd evidently had the dowser go over the list of twenty-two dominated planets. Talents, Incorporated Hamar at once informed him he was a dowser, and that, chancing to pass by the garden on his way to his hotel, he had divined the presence of water. The Sorcery Club He said a dowser has to appreciate the “magnetic polarity of the Earth,” clear the mind, and be open to the possibility that a person can tap into an undeveloped sixth sense. Column: My broken sprinkler sent me on a quest. Can dowsers help us through the drought? 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Such experts ought, of course, to avoid working the dowsers into a state of irritation. The Making of Religion A similar experience is given by Miss M. Craigie Halkett, who published some excellent photographs of a dowser at work in Sketch for 23rd August 1899. Psychic Phenomena A Brief Account of the Physical Manifestations Observed in Psychical Research A dowser finds Because the whole earth's floating, like a raft. Georgian Poetry 1913-15 The river was lower than had ever been known or seen, and on the hills round the "dowsers" had been called in with their divining rods to find the vanished waters. The Naturalist on the Thames The instinct of an infallible dowser possessed him, and he made no mistakes. Three John Silence Stories The prophet’s success in striking water in the wilderness resembles the reported success of modern dowsers, though his mode of procedure was different. The Golden Bough Among these he enumerates, impressions from without unconsciously made upon the dowser's mind from his own trained observation and practice, and from bystanders. Psychic Phenomena A Brief Account of the Physical Manifestations Observed in Psychical Research If you mean to believe This dowser's stuff, and join him in his bedlam, By God, you'll have to reckon with my fist. Georgian Poetry 1913-15 But he has become more impressed with the view that the suggestion may arise "from some kind of transcendental discernment possessed by the dowser's subconscious self." Psychic Phenomena A Brief Account of the Physical Manifestations Observed in Psychical Research These dowsers live on lies: my trade's the truth. Georgian Poetry 1913-15 But I Never before so noted her — Sollers: What he said, The dowser! Georgian Poetry 1913-15 A peculiar pathological effect is produced on the dowser; but to what this is due can only be ascertained by persevering and unbiassed investigation. Psychic Phenomena A Brief Account of the Physical Manifestations Observed in Psychical Research |
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