Next, a voodoo priestess will shake some magic chicken bones and a dowser will find a vast new aquifer using nothing but a forked stick.
And the Coast Toasties think us folks here in Flyover Country are a bunch of backwoods rubes ...
Ah, that phrase brought back memories of the early days of VCRs, when my buddy and I would haul our two massive Video machines together and make copies of tapes. Since the process seemed beyond comprehension to most people (it required three RCA cables), we just told them we used a magic chicken bone ;-)
But, by CA standards, doing the rain dance is fairly sane. I hear it works better if they dance naked and stream live video, however...
“Next, a voodoo priestess will shake some magic chicken bones and a dowser will find a vast new aquifer using nothing but a forked stick.”
I kinda doubt the chicken bone thing, but I attest to the fact that you CAN find water with a ‘divining wand’.
Take two wire coat hangers and straighten them out. Then twist the the two together except leaving two ‘handles’ on one end.
It will look like a large ‘L’ except there will be a short leg on each side.
It should be quite long when finished and all you can do gripping the small wire handles to keep it out straight.
You can test it by gripping it to hold it out straight while walking over an area that you know has underground springs.
When you go over an underground spring it will point down like it was pulled by a powerful magnet. You won’t be able to grip it tight enough to keep it from pointing down.
An old farmer showed me how it worked and I was amazed at how well it works.