“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.
“When you go over an underground spring it will point down like it was pulled by a powerful magnet. “
You should warn people. I made one and tried it out over a lake. It pulled me to the bottom and I almost drowned.