Almost No One Recognizes This Weird Antique Tool. Do You Actually Know What It Is?

I'll be the first to admit that I had no idea what the below tool was when I first saw a photo circulating on the internet. Fortunately, however, there were people who did… At first glance it looks like a regular, old tree branch, V shaped but otherwise quite unremarkable. Yet its story as a useful tool for mankind goes all the way back to the 1500s, and a practice known as Water Dowsing. As per reports, the water dowser has several names, including a diviner, doodlebug, well witch, or water-finder. Its primary job? Yep, you guess it: to locate water.