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The American Society of Dowsers says it has about 2,000 members, several of whom are working water witches.

She was dubbed the “water witch” by her adversaries.

How many rural dowsers or water witches are still around is an open question.

“He knows more about water than anybody around here. He’s a water witch and a well-digger too. He’ll tell you. He’s put down half the wells in this part of the valley.”

“My father threw me down a well the day I was bom, but I was so ugly that the water witch who lived down there spat me back.”