water diviner
water finder AmE
waterfinder

It twitched with each bite like the rod of a water diviner.

Exorcists were like water diviners; either you could carry it out or you couldn't.

"Do your people have water diviners, too?"

In fiction inspired by a painting, a woman falls in love with an itinerant water diviner.

The farm is extremely drought-stricken, and Martin's mother has invited a water diviner to look for an underground stream.

Historical research with " a water diviner"?

There were six clairvoyants, four water diviners and nine people who had had direct contact with poltergeists.

An English translation of his Water Diviners and their Methods was published in 1931.

Married off at 17 to a farmer more than twice her age, a mysterious redheaded woman named Calla falls in love with an itinerant water diviner.

Caballero took a water diviner to the area, who employed the same divining technique using a twig that was common in Lorca's time.

The CBS crewmen watched uneasily as he circled the room, bent forward like a water diviner his thin body tense.

THE Scilly Isles employed a water diviner to pinpoint water sources last April.

As he approached within a few inches, he experienced the familiar tingling sensation throughout his body, the sensation a water diviner experiences as he stands above an underground stream.

While trying to solve the water scarcity of his village, Bakka, an overconfident water diviner faces unforeseen circumstances when he tries to help a female ornithologist save flamingos.

In "Dryland Divine," which opens the evening, he evokes the story of a water diviner in Wyoming who kills his evangelist brother and learns to play the accordion in prison.

Toting forked sticks that resemble enormous wishbones, or dangling pendulums over pale, yellow plains, as if the earth were but a floating Ouija board, water diviners across the country sought untapped wells.

It is a home-grown religion, hatched in upstate New York by an itinerant water diviner named Joseph Smith and rooted in the West by a Yankee carpenter, Brigham Young.

During this quest, Rufus inadvertently gives Wenzel his Dad's water diviner which he then uses to find clean water, thus making him rich and leading him to believe that Goal will now be entrusted to his care.

He likens it to being a "water diviner, trying to detect the potential that lies below the surface of an actor's talent," and he is given to quoting the Billy Wilder dictum that the best directing "is the one you don't see."

I believe that, if we do not move too far from this document, if we really can retain that which it contains, we will be saving the President of the Commission from having to run around like a water diviner in search of portfolios for his Commissioners.

Guided by an instinct peculiar to the dwellers in mountain regions and water finders, he "smelt" the living spring through the rock.