Water witching demonstration draws curious crowd to Mill Gap
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Water witching demonstration draws curious crowd to Mill Gap
Dave Townsend advises John Koger on how to hold the Y-shaped branch for dowsing. (Recorder photo by Tammy Minnigh) MILL GAP — Dave Townsend returned to the family farm in Highland County to give a dowsing demonstration. Also known as water witching, dowsing is a method of using a forked branch or metal rods to find water underground. Townsend has been practicing this Appalachian folklore tradition since the 1980s. His daughter, Marcella, arrange…
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