Rhabdomancy uses a forked branch or straight rod held in the hands of a sensitive practitioner who walks over ground waiting for involuntary movement. The rod dips or rotates when it passes over water, ore, or buried objects. Beyond dowsing, rhabdomancy also involved casting rods onto the ground and reading their orientation as lots — a practice recorded by Tacitus among Germanic tribes. The divining rod migrated naturally into pendulum work, as both depend on the same principle of amplified subtle body response.
Geomancy (earth)
Rhabdomancy
Divination using a rod or staff — ancestor of the divining rod — to locate hidden water, metals, and truth.
“"The rod does not find water — it finds the place where the practitioner already knows."”
Safety
Safe practice