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Date: | Mon, 22 Jan 2001 14:29:49 -0500 |
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If I remember from the folklore of Long Island to dowse for water there
required specific materials in hand.
1) A "crotch" or slingshot (Sp. honda?) like piece cut from a witch hazel
tree, which grows only in wetter places, near streams etc.
2) One was to bore a small hole in the intersection and affix with some sap
and the feather of a fowl.
By concentrating on the feather, the stick will pitch up or down in the
presence of underground water. I might add however, that there is much water
under Long Island in perched water tables and small shallow ponds come and go
under changes is surficial geologic hydrostatic pressures. Springs come and
go. One on (John) Scot's Cove between Poquott (George's Neck) and Setauket
(Mary Dyer's Neck) once was bottled that I know of. Kettle ponds hold water
higher but the largest, Lake Ronkonkoma goes up and down in 17 year cycles?
Growing up one was told that drownings there were found in Connecticut.
George Myers
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