YOUNG WATER DIVINER

Hawera Star, Volume L, 23 October 1930, Page 7

YOUNG WATER DIVINER

1 « ( 0I K l.'S R EMA RKAREEi POWERS. j TWIGS TWIST AND BREAK. ' A. 11-yearold English girl, named | i.javce Prosser, who Jives at Hardwiekej a village on tne-i mnijii ■ Glouces.tcT-'Dristoi rail, has been' discqveied to ■ possess remarkable powers of water divining. Ihe girl had been playing, in the garden when a representative ot' the “Dailv Express” called to see her, and was anxious to j frustrate her powers. : ’J found that 1 could divine water.” j-Joyce said, “when 1 was on a visit- to | niy aunt at Eynshain, near Oxford. A 'water diviner had been engaged in finding water near my liouse. and he had lie.t behind his divining rod. I tried and found that when 1 stood over I the ..-laco where he luid found water the ‘!• d twisted in my hands in the same -in- that it had in his. •When 1 went home'again J. took loco of ca.no, and found that the twisted in my hands when 1 stood -over tint well. Since then I have found wiiter in lots of places. •‘.So violent were the twistings of > cane in my hands that it caused blisters, so I tried some ordinary twigs I from the hedge, and l found that.*! could j find water just as well with them, but i -c- always snapped off if there was a j sfrciig flow of water underneath." ) The girl then pulled a piece of twig j In in an ordinary -garden basket, and, 1 'dim/ it in her hands, stood over the 1 will. Immediately the twig began to j ist and turn, although -held very i ft* by the girl. There was uo slow swyving or fcwitellings, but a thorough- !■' strong twisting movement, which was easily discernible. In a few seconds the twig twisted to such an extent that it snapped off. 1 Joyce then went into an adjoining field with another twig., and walked about. After a little time she said, •'There's water hero.” and the twig she was holding! again began to twist and turn in heir hands. She declared it was quite easy for her to follow the course- of an underground stream with her twigs.