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Definition of Dowsers
1. dowser [n] - See also: dowser
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dowsers
Literary usage of Dowsers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anthropological Studies by Anne Walbank Buckland (1891)
"CHAPTER X. DIVINATION—BY THE ROD AND BY THE ARROW.1 Witch-doctors and Diviners—Modern
dowsers—History of the Divining-rod—Its Shape—To be cut from a ..."
2. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1903)
"The malaise mentioned above as a frequent accompaniment of the exercise of their
art by dowsers is thus described in an earlier part of the same paper (p. ..."
3. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1903)
"The malaise mentioned above as a frequent accompaniment of the exercise of their
art by dowsers is thus described in an earlier part of the same paper (p. ..."
4. Radiant Healing: The Many Paths to Personal Harmony and Planetary Wholeness by Bellamy Isabel, Isabel Bellamy, Donald MacLean, Maclean Donald (2005)
"Some dowsers find the depth of a stream by 'counting down', or asking "is the
water more than 3ft underground?" (yes) "Is it more than 6ft? ..."
5. Popular Fallacios, by Alfred Seabold Eli Ackermann (1907)
"some experiments on dowsers, in which the latter gave a very poor account ...
It is clear he was not a believer in dowsers, and a large portion of the five ..."
6. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1898)
"After an introductory chapter on the modern literature of the topic, Professor
Barrett examines amateur dowsers, who have nothing to gain in a financial way ..."
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