forked stick
Y-shaped wooden piece
A forked stick is a branch or piece of wood that splits into two prongs, forming a Y shape.
Forked sticks serve practical purposes—as supports for poles, improvised slingshots, or props for fishing rods.
They're traditionally associated with dowsing, where practitioners hold the forked ends and walk until the stem supposedly dips toward water or minerals underground.
- bifurcatedDivided into two branches
- branchDivision or woody limb
- dowsingLocating hidden water underground
- water witchingFolk method finding groundwater
- diviningPerceiving through supernatural means
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- branchingbranching, dendrite, dendrites, dendritic, tree root
- finding waterdowsing, divining rod, well drilling, water witching, water table
- Dowsingdowser, divining rod, dowsing rod, water witch, water witching
- dowsing toolsdowsing rod, divining rod, willow branch