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.

I can sit and listen to you all day

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

nice to see a young guy interested in nature and trees rather than getting drunk and watching telly 😊

Excellent video and spot on with all the uses and folklore around the hazel.

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.

Your videos are quality mate, interesting to watch and helpful in my research

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 .

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 👍😊

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.

Wow thank you so much for this. I believe in the work... let’s not forget this knowledge! Subscribed 👍

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.

amazing video! cant wait for more of these! :)

that's great information . If you ever come out to see Big Sur I'll show you some of my favorite places.

Very interesting video thank you. I am now off out to try water divining!

Very good mate, interesting stuff and great content - enjoyed that =-)

Great video 👍👍

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

fantastic vid thank you for taking the time to do it, really informative.

love the idea behind this series. it kinda reminded me of a Jack Hanna or Steve Irwin, searching for elusive critters, only for plants.

Hello Pondguru thank you for the little walk in the country! 👍🏻 Françoise

Wicked video mate

great vid, thanks!

Very good ,thanks..

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

Thanks for the video, I'd love to try water diving with a hazel branch myself if I can find one!

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.

Great vid again. Thanks. Anybody that thinks water divining is fake should try it. It works and is amazing...just try it :-)

PPS I used to water devine as a young chap for my father looking for buried pipes !!

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 KZfaq 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.

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.

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 was Wizard Rich. Thankyou:)

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 😆

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.

Coppiced Hazel, was also used to make charcoal back in the day.

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

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 like that black and blue top

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😉

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.

I think you can tell if there's underground water by the way Tree branches grow as well.

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 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 ?

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?

very kool

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). :)

you got it , not everybody can witch a well . I found out I can also, I use bent hangers !!

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

Absolutely brilliant videos Richard. The intro music sounds similar to the magnificent 'Jack Hargreaves' Out of Town series,

Nice video Pondy. Commented, Liked and Shared :) BTW I'm now throwing you a Find Of The Day challenge

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

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'm looking where can I cut some branches for my wand and staff here in Salem MA

Very interesting video mate. You remind me of Harry Potter Look forward to watching more.GL&HH Mark.

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.

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

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 . . .

Is witch hazel very different? Keep up the good work !

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.

Also makes good walking sticks.

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?

when i was a kid if i got stung by a nettle my mum always said to rub dock leaves on the sting.

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?

you should get in contact with wiccan group many plant uses are passed on or relearned for their medicinal effects .

It's not the stick that's detecting water, but your own body. The hazel is only an indicator.

Lovely nature... send me the hazelcrown please ;D.

can u tell me about the marijuana plant rich? i need some info on it.

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

I don't know about magic, but hazel is miraculous for bbq smoking.

Near Durham theres not too many grays and a few red squirrels

Maybe Johnny Depp should have worn one of these hazel crowns, protecting him from that succubus!

You should ask it to find gold. Now we're thinking.

1st... 😄

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.