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Published May 28, 2012, 12:00 AM

Witching


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Leann Pelvit checks the sex of the deceased using an ancient but controversial method called witching near the old ghost town of Dore April 18. Witchers or dowsers also claim they can identify the gender of the interred by suspending an L-shaped rod on their fingertips like a pendulum. If it spins clockwise, it's a male; counterclockwise, a female.

Read the article: Women 'witch' for graves with divining rods in Oil Patch