A non-haunted story on water-witching

Published: July 29, 2007, 1:29 pm

The entire Mid-Atlantic region is in a terrible drought right now, although we got a few showers this weekend. It was most strange to visit Central Texas a week ago and see the fields a deep, rich green, while Maryland looks parched and dry. Anyway, when a weather story rolls on and on like this, newspapers almost always start searching for feature stories that have a dry-weather hook to them. Which leads us to a wonderful feature story in the Washington Post the other day by reporter Delphine Schrank that ran with the headline, “A Psychic Path to Water?” The story was, to cut to the chase, about “dowsers” or “water witches” who believe that they can find water by, well, here is the top of the story: On a sloping patch of withered grass at his Clarke County, Va., farm one recent afternoon, William Cross did what any seasoned farmer touched with the gift will do in search of a spot to dig a well. With his leathery hands, he gripped the handles of two

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