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AgentOrange Apr 19, 2002 08:40:56

Replying to Pete G

There's a theory that dowsers can identify 'leylines' because these are paths that were in use for thousands of years. That s thousands of years of the soil being compacted, and also possibly quite a long time over which metal from hobnail boots couldve worn off. Thatd cause some change in the local magnetic field.

I never managed to dowse successfully, cause the wind causes havoc. (But Ill keep trying, Morfe!)

Pete G Apr 19, 2002 12:28:57

Replying to AgentOrange

Its interesting to note that the dowsers bang on about the Michael and Mary leylines that run across the country but none of them mention the Ridgeway as being a leyline.
Funny eh? I would have thought that the Ridgeway would be well compacted and very dowsable if people have been travelling it for thousand of year.
Oh Ek! What have I started. One of the new-age lurkers is bound to pick up on this.
See http://www.johnfanzine.com/news/expand.php?id=19
for more info on Leylines,
PeteG

Chris Collyer Apr 20, 2002 11:29:17

Replying to AgentOrange

Funny thing dowsing....

This thread reminded me that when I was a kid, me and a mate saw a programme that showed you how to make dowsing rods out of coat hangers and old biro's for holders (Blue Peter has really gone downhill since then..)
Anyway, we gave it a go and had a wonder around the field behind my parents. We got some funny looks off the other kids but when we walked through an avenue of old trees, the rods crossed over - we thought we'd discovered water. When I told the old man about it later he explained that the trees lined an old trackway from the local manor house to a nearby village.
We never bothered to go dowsing again, (getting laughed at by yer school mates can have that effect on a kid!) and I've never done it since - don't know if I believe in this sort of thing anyway - but I didn't realise until now that dowsers could detect trackways.
Ho-hum
-Chris

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