Geotio Wrote:
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> L Cooper Wrote:
> Dowsing is a very ancient tradition not
> > shared (to my knowledge) by any of the
> > Pre-Columbian or Amer-Indian peoples - yet
> one
> > taken advantage of in the siting of early
> churches
> > and cathedrals in Great Britain and France.
>
> Admittedly Agricola's 1556 De Re Metallica is
> relatively old , but ancient ?
>
> What evidence is there for dowsing being used for
> the siting of any British or French cathedral of
> church?

Geotio,

Dowsing as I understand it commonly looks for water lines underground. There are European cathedrals built on or right by water springs. Now of course, I am inclined to think that the people already knew about the springs before building the church.

Some other times churches were built near pagan sites to act as a replacement.

Calendar I or II in VT is a megalithic site with spring water underneath, I read.

But then.... like I said, colonists from 18th c. England could have chosen springs as areas to build their own structures themselves, no need to demand it was done by Irish monks.