When I was eight my grandparents hired a water witch to find a place to dig a new well. My sibling and cousins followed him around all day. He showed each of us how to hold the fork peach tree branch to find water. I was the only one that could. He said I was a good dowser and I should practice everyday. He said good water dowsers were hard to find. I would hold the fork branch over a bucket of water and almost had burns on my hands from the wood turning while I was holding it back with all my might. My siblings and cousins couldn't do it at all. Later I tried metal to dowse but water is my best. Not much call for dowsers anymore when technology is 100%. I gave my kids forked peach branches and let them practice. My youngest could but my oldest couldn't. My DGD can. It's lots of fun for the kids.