THE DOWSER ART

Evening Star, Issue 22526, 19 December 1936, Page 22

THE DOWSER ART

CASE OF JOHN MULLINS The lecture tour in England of Professor Herzog, the head of the Austrian Dowsing Society, should renew interest in that strange extra senss in man which one authority considers is possessed by at least 75 per cent, of people but becomes dormant owing to lack of use, says the ‘ Manchester Guardian.’ Many famous dowsers, or diviners, have become aware of the faculty by accident. One of the mdst celebrated diviners of the last century was John Mullins, who as a young man was employed as a mason on a mansion to Sir John Ould in Gloucestershire. Impressed by the success of a Somerset dowser in discovering a large supply of water on the estate, Sir John experimented with 150 workmen. When the divining twig was taken xip by Mullins it became so violently agitated that it snapped in his hands. Tt was only then that he discovered that he was a dowser. , , ~ From 1882 until his death Mullins is said to have located over 5,000 sources of water supply. He was so confident of his powers that usually he would not accept payment until the well had been sunk, sometimes to a depth of 100 ft through solid rock, and the water obtained. The height at which the dowser works seems to have no effect on his Dowers. Hidden -water has been located by a dowser from the air 5,000 ft up and iii a coal mine 3,000 ft below ground.