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

In these days, we came across this image and were completely stumped. What in the world could it be? The image circulated around the All Cute offices while we considered all of the different uses for what seemed like a very regular tree branch.

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.