International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals
About Archives Practices Contribute Contacts Search

   

Periodical: American Dowser

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

American Dowser, The.
Quarterly Digest.
Indago Felix ("Happy Search")
Other titles: American Dowser Quarterly Digest
1961-current
Danville, VT.
Editor: Raymond C. Willey.
Publisher: American Society of Dowsers, Inc.
1/1, 1961-current.
48 pp., subscription included in dues of the society.

The journal was devoted to the development of the practical skills necessary for dowsing, theories and discussions of why and how dowsing works, articles on the history of the art and its Christian background, clippings from the press mentioning dowsing, accounts of events and conventions of the society, and articles and letters on related topics, like pendulums. While dowsing is often equated with "water witching," the journal extended the reach of the art to oil, gas, various minerals, and lost property. LOC; LSU; University of Vermont, etc.

Issues:American Dowser V17 N4 Nov 1977


Creative Commons License
IAPSOP materials are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
IAPSOP respects people's privacy and personal data rights.