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Curious information that may even seem fiction, arrived the other day from the United Kingdom. Not less, in fact, it turned out that this is true.
It turned out that employees of local water services are increasingly use ancient magic called dowsing to search leaks, and the pipes themselves underground. Hundreds of years ago, people found in this way the life-giving moisture hidden in the soil.
Dowsing is a parapsychological practice, consisting in the search in the bowels of the earth for water using the simplest tools. Previously, dowsers used forks from vines (hence the name) or branches. Today for these purposes mainly two metal bent at right angles are used knitting needles. Official science still considers dowsing quackery and does not recognize it, not to mention valuation the effectiveness of such a practice. Because it is even more surprising that British plumbers resort to a similar old method, regardless of any official views on him.
Oxford University student Sally Lepage did the other day unusual blog entry. Englishwoman told users Internet that her parents recently called a plumber for checking leakage in the water line to the house. The homeowners and their daughter were amazed when they saw through the window, as a specialist from the service water supply walks in the backyard, holding in each hand curved L-shaped metal tool. Confuse it eyewitnesses could not do anything else – the plumber was looking water leakage in the earth through dowsing!
After the Sally Lepage entry appeared in the World the web, many compatriots of the girl told her that too observed this behavior of pipelines. Many commentators only now I understood what was the meaning of this “mysterious ritual. ”
Do British water services train their staff dowsing? If so, then it is safe to say that humanity is growing up, realizing what hidden opportunities are fraught with ancient knowledge about the world around us, the knowledge that we in our scientific pride called witchcraft and quackery, without even realizing what kind of great power it is …
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