#waterwitching

American dowser in action, 1950s. #dowser #dowsing #waterwitching #radiesthésie #radiestesia #divination #occult #psychic #radiesthesie https://www.instagram.com/p/B8_gNOoFPpC/?igshid=15ndlybjeeep3

there are more important things than a basketball to a middle-aged poet with wobbly afternoon legs and arms that waterwitch for similes and half smiles like the seams on a basketball that seem to run both parallel and across

I’ve always loved this illustration of two cowpokes dowsing, featured in a 1950s oil company advertisement. I think the byline of the ad was “Sink’er there, pardner!”, referring to an oil well test hole. Figured after my last black and white post (which, holy crap, y’all *loved*!), I’d get back to a little color. Have a great Sunday, saints & sinners! #dowsing #diviningrod #southwest #wildwest #cowboy #occult #radiestesia #radiesthésie #waterwitching #psychic #oil #spindletop https://www.instagram.com/p/B86b7TyF3pM/?igshid=874jfhpy3jj8

A little pendulum pop art for your Thursday morning. #pendulum #radiesthesie #radiestesia #occult #psychic #paranormal #dowsing #waterwitching #pendule https://www.instagram.com/p/B1dxJeblh02/?igshid=z11z2hw0eznv

I’ll admit that I can’t always get enough of illustrations showing pendulums in action. #pendulum #psychic #dowsing #radiesthesie #radiesthésie #hypnotism #mesmerism #waterwitching #occult #spiritualism #radiestesia https://www.instagram.com/p/B233b07lpFK/?igshid=1muaol3vde3kp

Fantastically bold cover illustration from S.N. Pike’s practical instruction guide to dowsing, Water Divining. With the orange and black color scheme, maybe I should have saved this for the Halloween season. Or maybe you should listen to more Ministry. 😉 #dowsing #waterwitching #divining #waterdivining #radiesthesie #radiestesia #everydayishalloween #divination #occult #psychic #illustration https://www.instagram.com/p/B0DpT0wlV-g/?igshid=1xrwko7w3kht3

The view from the ground up: Tom Williamson practicing water-witching in the early 80s. Dowsing is such a strange niche of esotericism, in that practitioners straddle the occult and science in ways you don’t typically expect from other ritual practice. And it can get results, so much so that the US government received so many letters about it the Department of the Interior was compelled to issue a manual outlining the practice while sidestepping its total endorsement, instead directing people to a handy and exhaustive bibliography of historical works on the subject to find out more for themselves. Which is a great research gift. Nice sweater, Tom. #radiesthésie #dowsing #waterwitching #radiestesia #diviningrod #dowsingrods #ideomotor #occult #science #folkart #folklore #water #uglysweater #geology #goingdowntothewell https://www.instagram.com/p/BtnsHsZFt6E/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1vr5bwrrqfqzx

Snapped a shot of this beautiful piece while I had it out for framing. These old French magazines—I think this one is Le Petit Journal—have such gorgeous cover graphics. They show a lot of death, murder, dismemberment, and animal attacks, and while that’s great and all, it was nice to run into a topical piece for display. So here’s a French sorcier dowsing! #sorcier #sorciere #dowsing #radiesthesie #divination #radiestesia #radiesthésie #waterwitch #waterwitching #dowsingrod #diviningrod #occult #psychic https://www.instagram.com/p/BuYs8s9FgmU/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1100nkqgxao7y