Water divining is one of those things that sounds utterly improbable until you see it for yourself. For me, it happened last summer. Workmen were digging trenches in our garden and we were all ...

In his new film, The Water Diviner, Russell Crowe plays a tough Australian bush farmer possessed of mystical powers, which he uses to divine that everything that subsequently goes wrong is the fault ...

The BBC’s John Humphrys has been mocked after arguing in favour of water divining, otherwise known as dowsing, a practice backed up by no scientific evidence and dismissed as ‘medieval witchcraft’ by ...