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To accomplish this, they prayed together once a week that if the witching was the result of the action of unclean spirits that it would fail to work. Lo and behold, almost immediately the well drillers started having trouble finding water.

So what you are saying is that God heard their prayers and showed the drillers that the witching was from a bad spirit? Some here say it is from the Scriptures, others say it is from Satan, others say it doesn't work anyway. I live 26' above a great water table so it doesn't concern me.

Here's a fuller version of the story. One of the congregation witnessed dowsers in action and was troubled because it didn't seem natural. The pastor believed that when something appears to be spiritual, that it is a good idea to know if you are dealing with God or the devil. So they prayed for the dowsing spirits to be bound and silenced if they were servants of the devil. Unsurprisingly the dowsers immmediately lost their gift. When they found out why they retaliated against the church.

I have seen dowsing in action and it does appear to work. Can I gurantee that the operators weren't charletans? No, I can't. But I can say that in order for the map dowser in particular to fake his findings he whould have needed to be very familiar with the site he was dowsing, more familiar than a survey crew that had spent weeks on that site.

I'm also not saying that the dowsing "gift" is always from Satan. But such gifts need to be considered with caution.