During the earlier years of its existence, each Journal of the British Society of Dowsers contained brief reviews of European dowsing journals. One of these was the French dowsing journal named Radiesthesie pour Tous, now sadly a publication no more. These reviews were brief, but they included translations into English.  The content of these European journals, and particularly this one, were very interesting. One gets the impression that the French dowsers were more open minded than their English counterparts at this time, with regard to how dowsing might work and how it might be applied.

Anyway, here is a short extract from Radiesthesie pour Tous, Number 21, August 1951, p263, entitled “Errors in Radiesthesia”. There are two short accounts of dowsers performing a successful search, but which turned out to be failures, in very unexpected manners.

The first search was for a lost dog, but actually the dog’s brother was found.

In the second search, the dowser sought a husband and wife, with whom contact had been lost at the start of WW2. In fact, the couple had been killed, and instead he located their son in one location, and a relative in another.

Such failures show the importance of the dowser asking the right questions, or series of questions, about the object(s) sought during the search process.

The translated text is available here (look for p.263):

http://www.dowsing-research.net/blog_extracts/BSD_No70_1950_p243.pdf