Suddenly, the concentration is read on his face.
To connect with the subsoil and pierce the mysteries of the life of the springs that undulate under his feet, Claude Hervy needs silence and his metal rods.
Even for a simple demonstration that he agrees to do this Tuesday afternoon in his garden, under a blazing sun, the dowser, who lives in Courances in Essonne, needs all the conditions to be met.
"Move over, you're in my way,"
he says bluntly.
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The two parallel rods that he holds delicately in each hand, as if to leave them free, come together and end up crossing each other.
"Here it is
," he said.
Even where, in 2002, at the point of intersection formed by the two metal branches, he discovered the existence of an underground river and brought in a driller.
The latter dug the bowels of the earth until the water spouted out: discovered at 34 meters deep, as the dowser had calculated.
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