“It works. Have you tried it?”
No, been too busy with astrology and in my Alchemy lab. I’ll get to the other medieval magic soon as i can though.
Oops, gotta run, my favorite medium is telling me that my dead uncle wants to chat.
Are you more knowledgable about locating underground lines than someone who does it professionally every day? If so, please state your credentials. We're all eager to hear them.
I have seen it done. We were consulting with an Engineer for the local utility company about how to route power into a location, and I mentioned we had to find some underground conduits. This guy whips out these two telescoping rods that had handles, and proceeds to walk around over the site. I start laughing cause I thought he was nuts.
He points out a spot and says the line crosses the road right here, and there is some sort of junction box underground at this point. I tell him that is highly unlikely because it is too far away from where it should be. I think he is full of sh*t, but we hook up our electronic cable tracer to some exposed wires and inject a signal into them.
As we walk along with the hand held tracer, we encounter a tone at exactly the spot he had marked in the dirt with his foot. When we dug it all up, it was just as he had said.
I asked him how it works, and he gave me some nonsense about magnetic fields and such. (I do Electronic Engineering) I concluded he didn't know how it works and was just making stuff up to cover up for the fact that he didn't know what he was talking about.
I don't know what to think about it. It looks like total crap to me, but he did accurately place that underground conduit and junction box. I am willing to entertain the notion that there may be some as yet unexplained reason why this stuff might work. I would like to see some experiments conducted.
What I saw was such an unlikely occurrence that I am willing to give the idea the benefit of the doubt.