Hazel was sacred to the ancient Irish , (and the Welsh too ?) , it appears in a very important story about wisdom. From my own experience there is something magic about it, I was out looking for a hazel wand today, it must reveal itself to you, you can't just take one. Thanks for the video, you could have shown us some close ups of the leaves to help us identify the hazel.
When I was a kid the water witchers used hazel forks. A local guy found water for my brother's well. The same came up as a spring when pipeline diggers hit it. It made a big pond in the creek until they buried it.
Not sure Richard how I missed this gem of a video. I am currently supplementing the existing oaks in Trailcam Wood with young oaks grown from acorns collected from the woodland (and grown on as per my air pruned oak videos) to perpetuate the wood. There is a small patch of Hazel in the wood consisting of two stools, very old and not harvested for a long, long time... I have cut out a number of stems over the years for walking sticks, tree stakes etc. Now I intend to increase the Hazel with a spot of layering and planting in the next few weeks of around a dozen whips that I have grown. I have never dowsed with Hazel but do so, often with a crystal pendulum... It works well for me with no demonic 😳🤞👀intrusions thus far. A thoroughly enjoyable watch and listen. Paul 👍😊
I'm a bit too old to start learning the edible plants . But I do like learning about Plants , schrubs , and trees . Great start on your series here . I liked it and will try to keep up with the rest . Loved the Lore part too .
I will try and bring more lore into it but you wouldn't believe the amount of hate messages I get from so-called Christians when I mention anything about what people believed before the monotheistic religions crushed their systems.
Thats nice that you doing this video. I remember as a kid I would go with my grandmother to gather different plants and roots for medicine and healing. Thanks for sharing Richard and brining me back to remembering my grandmother.
I know one thing for sure, I'm going to have to get out and make some more of these videos or Winter will be here soon, lol Glad you enjoy the videos as I love making them.
Have to say Richard your videos are a class above the rest. You make them fun and enjoyable to watch with your natural relaxed manner. It's people like you that are willing to share and pass on their knowledge that make TH-cam the great success it is. Would it be possible for you to make a tutorial on how to make fire with a bow drill from start to finish, showing what type of wood to use for bow drill and hearth etc. I know there are lots of vids on that subject but unfortunately there are very few showing the best timber to use from the woodlands here in Ireland or the UK. Anyway keep up the excellent work.....! Tom, Kilkenny City, Ireland.
Dear Tom, Glad you enjoy the videos and that subject is definitely on my list. Problem is since the start of the year I have been crazy busy and unable to make many videos or even find time to edit the footage I have. I've got companies who have sent me gear to review crawling up my bot asking where the review videos are but I can't review something I haven't used for its intended purpose as there are way too many table top / unboxing 'reviews' out there and I won't lower myself to that level. I turn 90% of the companies away as it is always better to have a mixed channel as opposed to one just bashing out reviews all the time. I've never been to Ireland but I love the folklore which is still retained there. Regards, Richard
The info on the Hazel was interesting but the divining was even more so. I remember being bring intrigued by it when i met a swimming pool specialist detecting a leak with steel diving rods, so i got myself some & they scared the crap out of me the first time i used them! It is bizarre, but they do work. never tried Hazel divining but would love to give that a go too.
There you go Rich... Spin off business opportunity... Whilst you coppice the trees you don't have time for... Make it pay by cutting divining rods to sell. That way, you're managing the trees, making a return for your time and effort, and giving other people the tools and chance of experiencing this strange phenomena.
lol I already have enough different business things going and I can barely manage them but the sad thing is I reckon some people would actually buy Y shaped sticks they could find themselves very easily.
Hey Richard - I was taught that anything you use to divine is basically an amplifier that can take something too subtle for our "modern" mentality to notice and make it big enough to see. My point is that its your "primitive" unconditioned awareness that knows where the water is not the piece of wood. It really doesn't matter what you use - for eg cut and bend metal coat hanger wire into two L shapes, stick the shorter length into thin pipe (empty biro barrels work well) and then wander around and see when the two bits of wire (which can move freely) vibrate or cross over each other. I prefer hazel because I like traditional methods and connecting to the old ways of doing things, but like most "magic" its just tapping into stuff our modern numbed out senses tune out. Something really interesting and very cool came to light in a BBC documentary done ages ago (VCR era definitely) where these dowsers were taken to an ancient deer hunting forest. They had a forester/game keeper in tow who clearly thought it was all BS to start off with. Anyway, they dowsed for ley lines first on an OS map of the area and then walked the forest and basically figured out where there was a conjunction of two, three or four lines. They'd never been to the forest before remember. It was immediately apparent to the sceptical forester that every point these "wacky townies" identified as a ley line conjunction was and had been for hundreds if not thousands of years, a mating ground/dustbath for the deer. The more senior the stag, the more points on his antlers, the more ley lines running through the piece of turf he fought others to keep - at least during the rut. That really helped me understand that these things aren't some new age twaddle but something very tangible that animals can not only sense but clearly value enough to spill blood over. After all if animals think there's something special there, its hardly surprising our ancestors paid attention and chose those sites to amplify their own experiences. I'm not the teeniest bit religious but there's no denying the specially good feeling you can get in really old churches, probably because they got built on the pagan sites, which in turn were situated where the deer rutted . . .
Everything you say there resonates with me and you're very accurate about our senses now being numb. We're insulated from the earth by footwear, prevented from stargazing by streetlights and fed mindless pap on TV which addicts the weak minded reducing us to nothing more than consumers who buy stuff we don't need with money we don't have. There is so much more out there to discover and some areas do have very special feelings although I personally don't get that feeling in churches although I have never tried rutting in one for fear of being branded as a Satanist, lol Such a shame the cult of Christianity spread and all but snuffed out the original nature based beliefs as we surely would have had a better connection to the world back then. Glad you enjoyed the video and I'm looking forward to making more in this series.
.....fed mindless pap on TV which addicts the weak minded reducing us to nothing more than consumers who buy stuff we don't need with money we don't have. That just about sums up the whole country.
I'll enjoy this series I'm sure. Excellent results from the divining rod, I used to work with a fellow that was into dowsing. I could never get it to work for me. Recently watched a show on The Emerald Tablets, a book about plants and ancient knowledge that is so far undecipherable.
There is so much knowledge which has been destroyed, suppressed and hidden over the years that we will probably never get it all back so I'll be happy to learn as much as I can while making the series.
I have watched programs on that and heard a few podcasts which discussed the manuscript and it looks very strange since none of the plants seem to relate to species we have identified and the language is as you say, undecipherable. A few people have theorised that it is an elaborate hoax / fake which was sold to insanely rich collectors of unusual items.
I've enjoyed your videos for a few years now. When's the TV show ? ; ) One more thing re: hazel. It's a spectacular colour in the fall here in Canada. Reds, oranges, golds - really a beautiful plant. It also spreads by runners, so is easy to multiply.
It only goes yellow when the leaves are dying off up here - would be awesome to see it in different colours and I hear that the Canadian fall is a beautiful sight before the long cold winter. Thanks for watching and appreciating the videos.
Well done, another interesting video. I once went on a divining course at my local college, and apparently most people can divine water. I did have some reservations about the idea of map divining - where some people reckon they can find water by passing their stick over a map but generally it does work! Spooky that there is stuff around we still don't understand 😆
I believe in an electric universe and that we are all linked to everything living including the earth so maybe it has something to with that magic. Glad you enjoyed the video.
Very informative video on the Hazel shrub. I didn't know that it was used for divining. Now, can you find a Y shped branch that will find silver coins? Hahaha 😂 I might sell my CTX and At Pro...heck no😲Great video Richard. Looking forward to your next video in plant identification😉
I have a friend - former gf - who can divine for water using metal clothes hangers cut and bent at a right angle, with about 6 inches of wire per side. I'm very skeptical and expected some sort of ruse or finger manipulation, but she merely rested the two bent hangers on her up-turned hands and when she walked over the water supply line to her house the hanging ends of wire moved away from each other as if magnetized. Astonishing. Her grandfather could do it too, but, not her parents.
It is a very strange thing but it definitely works for some people. My brother will have none of this new age 'nonsense' as he thinks with a very scientific mind but there is so much we can't explain I'd rather believe in natural magic.
Great video. I’ve recently started doing bushcraft myself. I started in lockdown, I solo camp in a few places. One place I camp is a small area of hazel trees. I’ve started builds with dry standing and what’s off the floor. I will have to ask the warden if I can coppice. At I would like to try a go at some of your builds.
Best of luck when you get out there. Being outdoors and learning traditional skills is never time wasted - it is time invested and since we're heading for a full economic collapse (probably around September / October 2022) and engineered food shortages anything you learn between now and then will be worth more than gold.
Orc tree? Humor or did I mishear? Greetings to you from Alabama, Richard. This was a really nice, thoughtful presentation of some ancient lore. Interesting about the magical properties of hazel trees and wood, and the weaving. Beautiful landscapes and birdsong. Do one on the rowan if you haven'r already. And beech trees.
Nice video Richard and very educational on the types of woodland trees we can use for craft work or like you have shown finding areas of water. Very interesting the stick method and I did try this when I was little and was amazed at how well it worked it was really spooky but does actually work like you have shown :-D ATB GL & HH LittleJohn Metal Detecting
Awesome! I have several people in the family (in eastern Kentucky) who do water divination (& many who've passed on)...I knew that willow was used but I asked around & hazel is used as well. Likely not found out in the wild, but do you have contorted hazelnut over there?
I have a beautiful contorted hazel in my garden which is approx. 10' (3m) high and I always make sure I take out the straight growths to ensure that all the branches are contorted. Not seen a contorted in the wild as they will probably revert back to the straight variety if not managed properly.
When I was a kid we used to make bows aut of hazel as it was available everywhere and is easy to work with. Some parents used young hazel shoots for whipping their kids across their backside if they did something wrong. And you can make a great fishing pole out of hazel. You can read more about that in Treatyse of fysshynge wyth an angle, by dame Juliana Berners written in late 15th century (www.luminarium.org/renascence-editions/berners/berners.html). It is also one of, if not the oldest sports fishing guides. Making a fishing rod from that guide would be a pretty nice project and/or a vid(series). :)
Yes we used to make bows and arrows back in the day and no matter how straight the wood was the arrows would just fly all over the place, lol. Interesting on the fishing guide too thanks.
I am living in Holland now and the red squirrels love to eat most of the nuts along with the woodpeckers. I didn''t know that they produced nuts in the north of uk as that is the part of the world I am from but have never seen one with nuts.
Hey bud, your local too haha. I just checked this out, glad I have just seen it now as it's very similar lol. loved that you did the devining rod. they do actually work for more than water, you can find anything with them. I have subed too. ;)
I keep meaning to try the divining rod in an area where I don't know there is water underground but in the test I did here there was 100% some sort of feeling or force pulling the rod down. It was strange and awesome at the same time.
Hi Richard mate,,well I enjoyed the video as always but would be more convinced if you found a water source you didnt know the location of,,,ATB Richie
I reckon you're right there but there was definitely a feeling of the rod being pulled down to the ground at both the locations where water was about 4 feet under the ground. I'll try it in an unknown place one day.
Yes , but then you'd have to bring a jcb with you to dig down to see if you were right or not !!! not so good for biodiversity or the green powering the earth either .....digging holes all over ....ha ha . There's a video done by ' Tiger Creek ' where he shows how he used divination to find water, and because he needed the source for his livestock , he dug down and made a pump from the source. So it's CERTAINLY a genuine thing .
great as ever, do you know what bird that is chirping in the beginning of your segment. I always remember cycling to the stables in Felixstowe, in the early morning listening to that bird but I have yet to identify it.please put me out of my misery and tell me what one it is.loving this new idea on these segments keep it up thanks
There is a starling calling in the intro but when I am walking up to address the camera later I think it is a blackbird but there is a wren in that bit too, lol
@@xxgoodboy1499 Yes, hazel is classes as a native hardwood although that just means it is in the hardwood family of trees - it is quite pliable and bends well when the branches are thin, making it a good one for weaving.
Great video, looking forward to more in the series. I use hazel for the spindle in my bow drill set, interesting to see it detect water, I wonder if another wood would have worked too or if it was exclusively hazel. Ps hope the knees on the mend
I've been trying to research the timber of a bow drill. I've heard alder is also good. What timber do you use for the hearth? I'm looking forward to trying this out. Thanks.
I would probably be up for that when my knee get better which will be up to 3 months as I dislocated it on holiday and stretched the ligaments a bit too far so no digging for a while.
Waay aye man, nice job. Hazel if bent down and pegged to the ground and left for a while will produce super straight sticks growing straight up. Shepherds sticks and crooks were made like this long time ago I am told. Also, the divining is more down to you than the stick.....The hazel was probably used as it was readily available and had "magical powers" I have seen water found using 2 metal rods bent at right angles as handles (like a pistol in each hand. Held at a slight angle downward so they are parallel in front of you, when they find a water course they will cross. I tried this years ago and it worked... I think its the human mind/ body focusing on something to show the spot. The divining apparatus would not work if carried by a robot!! Also pendulums have been used, but thats another story..... Did you get heavier pellets yet?
I have seen hazel bent down naturally when the parent plant sustains heavy damage and the new growth is indeed very straight so that makes perfect sense. Yes there is much more going on with dowsing / divining than simply a 'magic' stick or rods. Problem is as it is an effect which can't be quantified it will be denied and derided by science until an instrument has been invented to test what is causing the effect.
i do enjoy the candies made from the hazelnut ie; ferrero rocher ! is the hazel bush related to the hazel specie which is used to produce the astringent " witch hazel ?
thanks for taking the time to comment back! :) i subbed to the channel for the aquarium stuff back in the day, but even though i'm not outdoorsy myself, i'm really enjoying all the new outdoors content. looking forward to more videos like this!
Its a true way to devine source of water. I have used a pendulum and found an under ground spring head. It was.... it seemed down right unnatural to see a silver chain with a wee crystal on at end, stand perpendicular to the earth pointing to the water source. It defies known laws of physics. Im a believer.
I would assume so, yes although I think most trees would have been used for making arrows. For a crude arrow which needs minimal work the hazel would produce lots of them when it was coppiced.
My wife would get on my case if I did that, lol. It is probably the most useful plant on the planet and also the most punished, restricted and suppressed. When the man tells you to look one way always look in the opposite direction and that is normally where the truth will be.
If you find green hazel nuts and you are in a survival situation you can crush them in a bag and put it in a small stream it will make fish rise to the top so you can pick them up. But since it is doing this by removing oxygen from the water only do this in a survival situation. Respect mother nature
You should join your local red squirrel conservation group if you're not already a member. For me in cumbria its Penrith and District Red Squirrel Group.
The biggest problem is that there is way too many people encouraging them by feeding the greys and not enough people shooting them. It didn't help that my cat killed the last red squirrel living in my wood....
Hazel was sacred to the ancient Irish , (and the Welsh too ?) , it appears in a very important story about wisdom. From my own experience there is something magic about it, I was out looking for a hazel wand today, it must reveal itself to you, you can't just take one.
Thanks for the video, you could have shown us some close ups of the leaves to help us identify the hazel.
I love that you put your message at the beginning. I just started my Plant Identifting and I feel it's important knowledge to get out to the people
When I was a kid the water witchers used hazel forks. A local guy found water for my brother's well. The same came up as a spring when pipeline diggers hit it. It made a big pond in the creek until they buried it.
nice to see a young guy interested in nature and trees rather than getting drunk and watching telly 😊
I'm not that young, lol
Pondguru He’s just trying to butter you up pal aha
You're right! No drunken naturalist!
I can sit and listen to you all day
I think my voice is ultra boring, lol
Not sure Richard how I missed this gem of a video. I am currently supplementing the existing oaks in Trailcam Wood with young oaks grown from acorns collected from the woodland (and grown on as per my air pruned oak videos) to perpetuate the wood. There is a small patch of Hazel in the wood consisting of two stools, very old and not harvested for a long, long time... I have cut out a number of stems over the years for walking sticks, tree stakes etc. Now I intend to increase the Hazel with a spot of layering and planting in the next few weeks of around a dozen whips that I have grown. I have never dowsed with Hazel but do so, often with a crystal pendulum... It works well for me with no demonic 😳🤞👀intrusions thus far. A thoroughly enjoyable watch and listen. Paul 👍😊
Nice one man and I hope you're keeping well in this time of madness - feel free to phone any time as I miss most of what goes on here on TH-cam.
I'm a bit too old to start learning the edible plants . But I do like learning about Plants , schrubs , and trees . Great start on your series here . I liked it and will try to keep up with the rest . Loved the Lore part too .
I will try and bring more lore into it but you wouldn't believe the amount of hate messages I get from so-called Christians when I mention anything about what people believed before the monotheistic religions crushed their systems.
Thats nice that you doing this video. I remember as a kid I would go with my grandmother to gather different plants and roots for medicine and healing.
Thanks for sharing Richard and brining me back to remembering my grandmother.
Glad you enjoyed it and it is great to hear that your grandmother was a learned person.
Bendy Hazel yes. Very useful for making Benders (yurt-style shelters) which we used to do when younger and attending those 1980's pop festivals.
Excellent video and spot on with all the uses and folklore around the hazel.
Hello Pondguru thank you for the little walk in the country! 👍🏻 Françoise
No worries, man - thanks for watching.
+Pondguru Outdoors if you want to watch, DOMUS 29 is a lady...😳
Apologies, I didn't know - last time I checked your channel you had no videos up so I've subscribed now.
It's an honor! Thank you
love the idea behind this series. it kinda reminded me of a Jack Hanna or Steve Irwin, searching for elusive critters, only for plants.
I know one thing for sure, I'm going to have to get out and make some more of these videos or Winter will be here soon, lol
Glad you enjoy the videos as I love making them.
Good day mate, another top video, no shortage of good info, thanks for the ride, much appreciate it, 5 * vid, best regards from NZ, Tony.
No worries, man - thanks for watching.
Have to say Richard your videos are a class above the rest. You make them fun and enjoyable to watch with your natural relaxed manner. It's people like you that are willing to share and pass on their knowledge that make TH-cam the great success it is. Would it be possible for you to make a tutorial on how to make fire with a bow drill from start to finish, showing what type of wood to use for bow drill and hearth etc. I know there are lots of vids on that subject but unfortunately there are very few showing the best timber to use from the woodlands here in Ireland or the UK.
Anyway keep up the excellent work.....! Tom, Kilkenny City, Ireland.
Dear Tom,
Glad you enjoy the videos and that subject is definitely on my list. Problem is since the start of the year I have been crazy busy and unable to make many videos or even find time to edit the footage I have. I've got companies who have sent me gear to review crawling up my bot asking where the review videos are but I can't review something I haven't used for its intended purpose as there are way too many table top / unboxing 'reviews' out there and I won't lower myself to that level. I turn 90% of the companies away as it is always better to have a mixed channel as opposed to one just bashing out reviews all the time.
I've never been to Ireland but I love the folklore which is still retained there.
Regards,
Richard
The info on the Hazel was interesting but the divining was even more so. I remember being bring intrigued by it when i met a swimming pool specialist detecting a leak with steel diving rods, so i got myself some & they scared the crap out of me the first time i used them! It is bizarre, but they do work. never tried Hazel divining but would love to give that a go too.
I found it a strange experience too and it really does feel like an invisible hand is guiding the Y shaped stick downwards.
There you go Rich... Spin off business opportunity... Whilst you coppice the trees you don't have time for... Make it pay by cutting divining rods to sell.
That way, you're managing the trees, making a return for your time and effort, and giving other people the tools and chance of experiencing this strange phenomena.
P.s. Or cut to order, as it'd be less work and the 'rods' would be as fresh as possible.
lol I already have enough different business things going and I can barely manage them but the sad thing is I reckon some people would actually buy Y shaped sticks they could find themselves very easily.
Hey Richard - I was taught that anything you use to divine is basically an amplifier that can take something too subtle for our "modern" mentality to notice and make it big enough to see. My point is that its your "primitive" unconditioned awareness that knows where the water is not the piece of wood. It really doesn't matter what you use - for eg cut and bend metal coat hanger wire into two L shapes, stick the shorter length into thin pipe (empty biro barrels work well) and then wander around and see when the two bits of wire (which can move freely) vibrate or cross over each other. I prefer hazel because I like traditional methods and connecting to the old ways of doing things, but like most "magic" its just tapping into stuff our modern numbed out senses tune out.
Something really interesting and very cool came to light in a BBC documentary done ages ago (VCR era definitely) where these dowsers were taken to an ancient deer hunting forest. They had a forester/game keeper in tow who clearly thought it was all BS to start off with. Anyway, they dowsed for ley lines first on an OS map of the area and then walked the forest and basically figured out where there was a conjunction of two, three or four lines. They'd never been to the forest before remember. It was immediately apparent to the sceptical forester that every point these "wacky townies" identified as a ley line conjunction was and had been for hundreds if not thousands of years, a mating ground/dustbath for the deer. The more senior the stag, the more points on his antlers, the more ley lines running through the piece of turf he fought others to keep - at least during the rut.
That really helped me understand that these things aren't some new age twaddle but something very tangible that animals can not only sense but clearly value enough to spill blood over. After all if animals think there's something special there, its hardly surprising our ancestors paid attention and chose those sites to amplify their own experiences. I'm not the teeniest bit religious but there's no denying the specially good feeling you can get in really old churches, probably because they got built on the pagan sites, which in turn were situated where the deer rutted . . .
Everything you say there resonates with me and you're very accurate about our senses now being numb. We're insulated from the earth by footwear, prevented from stargazing by streetlights and fed mindless pap on TV which addicts the weak minded reducing us to nothing more than consumers who buy stuff we don't need with money we don't have.
There is so much more out there to discover and some areas do have very special feelings although I personally don't get that feeling in churches although I have never tried rutting in one for fear of being branded as a Satanist, lol
Such a shame the cult of Christianity spread and all but snuffed out the original nature based beliefs as we surely would have had a better connection to the world back then.
Glad you enjoyed the video and I'm looking forward to making more in this series.
.....fed mindless pap on TV which addicts the weak minded reducing us to nothing more than consumers who buy stuff we don't need with money we don't have.
That just about sums up the whole country.
I'll enjoy this series I'm sure. Excellent results from the divining rod, I used to work with a fellow that was into dowsing. I could never get it to work for me. Recently watched a show on The Emerald Tablets, a book about plants and ancient knowledge that is so far undecipherable.
There is so much knowledge which has been destroyed, suppressed and hidden over the years that we will probably never get it all back so I'll be happy to learn as much as I can while making the series.
I was mistaken, it was not the emerald tablets, it was the Voynich Manuscript.
I have watched programs on that and heard a few podcasts which discussed the manuscript and it looks very strange since none of the plants seem to relate to species we have identified and the language is as you say, undecipherable. A few people have theorised that it is an elaborate hoax / fake which was sold to insanely rich collectors of unusual items.
PPS I used to water devine as a young chap for my father looking for buried pipes !!
Awesome - that is great to hear.
And the dowsing rod part!!! Omg!! Reminds me of when I tried a pendulum, just asking if my name was Macey or my name was something else
that's great information . If you ever come out to see Big Sur I'll show you some of my favorite places.
Sounds good to me.
I've enjoyed your videos for a few years now. When's the TV show ? ; )
One more thing re: hazel.
It's a spectacular colour in the fall here in Canada.
Reds, oranges, golds - really a beautiful plant.
It also spreads by runners, so is easy to multiply.
It only goes yellow when the leaves are dying off up here - would be awesome to see it in different colours and I hear that the Canadian fall is a beautiful sight before the long cold winter.
Thanks for watching and appreciating the videos.
In the U.S. we use Willow tree to find water ;-) I was told you could use a nut bearing tree to do the same thing too :)))
That is interesting and I will look into that.
Well done, another interesting video. I once went on a divining course at my local college, and apparently most people can divine water. I did have some reservations about the idea of map divining - where some people reckon they can find water by passing their stick over a map but generally it does work! Spooky that there is stuff around we still don't understand 😆
I believe in an electric universe and that we are all linked to everything living including the earth so maybe it has something to with that magic.
Glad you enjoyed the video.
You've been watching Avatar again haven't you lol?
No just listening to way too many podcasts about strange events and theories then making up my own nonsense based on that, lol
I can't even remember names never mind what's are good to eat or not as a wild woodland camper I should really know . great information mate
No worries, man. I'm hoping to really learn from this series.
Very informative video on the Hazel shrub. I didn't know that it was used for divining. Now, can you find a Y shped branch that will find silver coins? Hahaha 😂 I might sell my CTX and At Pro...heck no😲Great video Richard. Looking forward to your next video in plant identification😉
I should try it for silver and gold - would be way cheaper than all these damn detecting machines.
Your videos are quality mate, interesting to watch and helpful in my research
I think you can tell if there's underground water by the way Tree branches grow as well.
Interesting, thanks, man.
I have a friend - former gf - who can divine for water using metal clothes hangers cut and bent at a right angle, with about 6 inches of wire per side. I'm very skeptical and expected some sort of ruse or finger manipulation, but she merely rested the two bent hangers on her up-turned hands and when she walked over the water supply line to her house the hanging ends of wire moved away from each other as if magnetized. Astonishing. Her grandfather could do it too, but, not her parents.
It is a very strange thing but it definitely works for some people. My brother will have none of this new age 'nonsense' as he thinks with a very scientific mind but there is so much we can't explain I'd rather believe in natural magic.
Yes.. scientific background here too, but seeing is believing! Great channel btw!
Great video.
I’ve recently started doing bushcraft myself. I started in lockdown, I solo camp in a few places. One place I camp is a small area of hazel trees. I’ve started builds with dry standing and what’s off the floor. I will have to ask the warden if I can coppice. At I would like to try a go at some of your builds.
Best of luck when you get out there. Being outdoors and learning traditional skills is never time wasted - it is time invested and since we're heading for a full economic collapse (probably around September / October 2022) and engineered food shortages anything you learn between now and then will be worth more than gold.
Orc tree? Humor or did I mishear? Greetings to you from Alabama, Richard. This was a really nice, thoughtful presentation of some ancient lore. Interesting about the magical properties of hazel trees and wood, and the weaving. Beautiful landscapes and birdsong. Do one on the rowan if you haven'r already. And beech trees.
I'm glad you liked the video and I really should do more in this series, thanks for the reminder.
Thanks for the video, I'd love to try water diving with a hazel branch myself if I can find one!
Very interesting video thank you. I am now off out to try water divining!
No worries, glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching.
Coppiced Hazel, was also used to make charcoal back in the day.
Awesome, I suspected as much but I didn't research that.
Wow thank you so much for this. I believe in the work... let’s not forget this knowledge! Subscribed 👍
Nice video Richard and very educational on the types of woodland trees we can use for craft work or like you have shown finding areas of water. Very interesting the stick method and I did try this when I was little and was amazed at how well it worked it was really spooky but does actually work like you have shown :-D
ATB GL & HH
LittleJohn
Metal Detecting
Yes the uses and lore on trees is fascinating and I am looking forward to learning much more over the next few months.
GL&HH
Awesome! I have several people in the family (in eastern Kentucky) who do water divination (& many who've passed on)...I knew that willow was used but I asked around & hazel is used as well.
Likely not found out in the wild, but do you have contorted hazelnut over there?
I have a beautiful contorted hazel in my garden which is approx. 10' (3m) high and I always make sure I take out the straight growths to ensure that all the branches are contorted. Not seen a contorted in the wild as they will probably revert back to the straight variety if not managed properly.
When I was a kid we used to make bows aut of hazel as it was available everywhere and is easy to work with. Some parents used young hazel shoots for whipping their kids across their backside if they did something wrong. And you can make a great fishing pole out of hazel. You can read more about that in Treatyse of fysshynge wyth an angle, by dame Juliana Berners written in late 15th century (www.luminarium.org/renascence-editions/berners/berners.html). It is also one of, if not the oldest sports fishing guides. Making a fishing rod from that guide would be a pretty nice project and/or a vid(series). :)
Yes we used to make bows and arrows back in the day and no matter how straight the wood was the arrows would just fly all over the place, lol.
Interesting on the fishing guide too thanks.
That was Wizard Rich. Thankyou:)
Glad you enjoyed it, man. Hopefully I can get out to do some more soon.
Great vid again. Thanks. Anybody that thinks water divining is fake should try it. It works and is amazing...just try it :-)
Yes I was skeptical but can feel a definite tug downward while walking over underground water.
I am living in Holland now and the red squirrels love to eat most of the nuts along with the woodpeckers. I didn''t know that they produced nuts in the north of uk as that is the part of the world I am from but have never seen one with nuts.
That's because the grey squirrels eat them all, lol
Very good mate, interesting stuff and great content - enjoyed that =-)
Hey bud, your local too haha. I just checked this out, glad I have just seen it now as it's very similar lol.
loved that you did the devining rod. they do actually work for more than water, you can find anything with them.
I have subed too. ;)
I keep meaning to try the divining rod in an area where I don't know there is water underground but in the test I did here there was 100% some sort of feeling or force pulling the rod down. It was strange and awesome at the same time.
Pondguru Outdoors yeah I agree with that, we have used them in the past and they definitely move. 👍
That sounds awesome - there's definitely some sort of magic at work there.
Great video 👍👍
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Hi Richard mate,,well I enjoyed the video as always but would be more convinced if you found a water source you didnt know the location of,,,ATB Richie
I reckon you're right there but there was definitely a feeling of the rod being pulled down to the ground at both the locations where water was about 4 feet under the ground. I'll try it in an unknown place one day.
Yes , but then you'd have to bring a jcb with you to dig down to see if you were right or not !!! not so good for biodiversity or the green powering the earth either .....digging holes all over ....ha ha .
There's a video done by ' Tiger Creek ' where he shows how he used divination to find water, and because he needed the source for his livestock , he dug down and made a pump from the source. So it's CERTAINLY a genuine thing .
I'm looking where can I cut some branches for my wand and staff here in Salem MA
great as ever, do you know what bird that is chirping in the beginning of your segment. I always remember cycling to the stables in Felixstowe, in the early morning listening to that bird but I have yet to identify it.please put me out of my misery and tell me what one it is.loving this new idea on these segments keep it up thanks
There is a starling calling in the intro but when I am walking up to address the camera later I think it is a blackbird but there is a wren in that bit too, lol
fantastic vid thank you for taking the time to do it, really informative.
No worries, man - thanks for watching.
@@pondguru i didn't get it from the video. Is the wood hard?
@@xxgoodboy1499 Yes, hazel is classes as a native hardwood although that just means it is in the hardwood family of trees - it is quite pliable and bends well when the branches are thin, making it a good one for weaving.
Great video, looking forward to more in the series. I use hazel for the spindle in my bow drill set, interesting to see it detect water, I wonder if another wood would have worked too or if it was exclusively hazel. Ps hope the knees on the mend
I once used Hazel to make a crutch when I dislocated my other knee about 10 years ago, lol
Bow drill is on my list of things to get to this year.
I've been trying to research the timber of a bow drill. I've heard alder is also good. What timber do you use for the hearth? I'm looking forward to trying this out. Thanks.
This was a fun video to watch. I love hearing folklore and where ideas, practices and myths come from. Good share! Now does Hazel grow in CANADA?
I think it will do. You have Alder which is another one of the trees I will be covering in this series.
+Pondguru Outdoors awesome I'll be watching!
you got it , not everybody can witch a well . I found out I can also, I use bent hangers !!
I will have to give that a go and I can't believe I haven't tried that until I was in my 40's
Nice video Pondy. Commented, Liked and Shared :)
BTW I'm now throwing you a Find Of The Day challenge
I would probably be up for that when my knee get better which will be up to 3 months as I dislocated it on holiday and stretched the ligaments a bit too far so no digging for a while.
The countdown begins Richard. ;)
Very good ,thanks..
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I like that black and blue top
Waay aye man, nice job.
Hazel if bent down and pegged to the ground and left for a while will produce super straight sticks growing straight up.
Shepherds sticks and crooks were made like this long time ago I am told.
Also, the divining is more down to you than the stick.....The hazel was probably used as it was readily available and had "magical powers" I have seen water found using 2 metal rods bent at right angles as handles (like a pistol in each hand.
Held at a slight angle downward so they are parallel in front of you, when they find a water course they will cross.
I tried this years ago and it worked... I think its the human mind/ body focusing on something to show the spot.
The divining apparatus would not work if carried by a robot!! Also pendulums have been used, but thats another story.....
Did you get heavier pellets yet?
I have seen hazel bent down naturally when the parent plant sustains heavy damage and the new growth is indeed very straight so that makes perfect sense.
Yes there is much more going on with dowsing / divining than simply a 'magic' stick or rods. Problem is as it is an effect which can't be quantified it will be denied and derided by science until an instrument has been invented to test what is causing the effect.
Wicked video mate
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amazing video! cant wait for more of these! :)
I can't wait to make more as I am fascinated by natural knowledge.
i do enjoy the candies made from the hazelnut ie; ferrero rocher ! is the hazel bush related to the hazel specie which is used to produce the astringent " witch hazel ?
They are similar in appearance but a different genus so I'm assuming they are not related as witch hazel does not produce nuts.
Very interesting video mate. You remind me of Harry Potter Look forward to watching more.GL&HH Mark.
Harry Potter, lol
great vid, thanks!
It's not the stick that's detecting water, but your own body. The hazel is only an indicator.
when i was a kid if i got stung by a nettle my mum always said to rub dock leaves on the sting.
Although there is nothing in the dock which should help scientifically it does work as I use it all the time.
thanks for taking the time to comment back! :) i subbed to the channel for the aquarium stuff back in the day, but even though i'm not outdoorsy myself, i'm really enjoying all the new outdoors content. looking forward to more videos like this!
you should get in contact with wiccan group many plant uses are passed on or relearned for their medicinal effects .
I think they were all burned by the Christians up here but I will do research on that as natural knowledge should be learned and preserved.
Is witch hazel very different? Keep up the good work !
It is very similar but from a different genus. Has many medicinal uses.
Its a true way to devine source of water. I have used a pendulum and found an under ground spring head. It was.... it seemed down right unnatural to see a silver chain with a wee crystal on at end, stand perpendicular to the earth pointing to the water source. It defies known laws of physics. Im a believer.
Was Hazel used for making arrows in the past?
I would assume so, yes although I think most trees would have been used for making arrows.
For a crude arrow which needs minimal work the hazel would produce lots of them when it was coppiced.
Absolutely brilliant videos Richard. The intro music sounds similar to the magnificent 'Jack Hargreaves' Out of Town series,
It is by a Pagan rock band called Inkubus Sukkubus and I think the track is Karnaya.
I don't know about magic, but hazel is miraculous for bbq smoking.
I didn't know that so thanks for that knowledge - groovy.
Ka-chiiing... £££
can u tell me about the marijuana plant rich? i need some info on it.
My wife would get on my case if I did that, lol.
It is probably the most useful plant on the planet and also the most punished, restricted and suppressed. When the man tells you to look one way always look in the opposite direction and that is normally where the truth will be.
well said. looking forward to ur next video as always. thank you for entertaining my idea :P
Lovely nature... send me the hazelcrown please ;D.
lol, you already had your wish for gold granted so what would you wish for next?
+Pondguru Outdoors more gold of course ... *lol*
If you find green hazel nuts and you are in a survival situation you can crush them in a bag and put it in a small stream it will make fish rise to the top so you can pick them up. But since it is doing this by removing oxygen from the water only do this in a survival situation. Respect mother nature
That is an awesome tip and very different from the other information which has been offered in the comments - thanks for sharing that.
very kool
No worries - thanks for watching and I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Also makes good walking sticks.
Near Durham theres not too many grays and a few red squirrels
That is unusual as only 15 miles north up here we're lucky to see a red every couple of years or so.
You should join your local red squirrel conservation group if you're not already a member.
For me in cumbria its
Penrith and District Red Squirrel Group.
Yours might be
www.rsne.org.uk
The biggest problem is that there is way too many people encouraging them by feeding the greys and not enough people shooting them. It didn't help that my cat killed the last red squirrel living in my wood....
My cats scared of red squirrels but loves to hunt grays
Maybe Johnny Depp should have worn one of these hazel crowns, protecting him from that succubus!
lol
You should ask it to find gold. Now we're thinking.
That would be awesome, lol
great guy but not the best for learning how to dowse. there are much better instructional videos explaining the art of dowsing. Yes its real.
1st... 😄
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