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| St Mary's well Dorset England |
The Celts believed water had magical properties. One reason
might have to do with how the water got here. Though there are many
myths about the beginning of civilization, one theory is that the world was
covered in water, flooded so to speak, and when the waters receded, the most
holy of it was left behind, perhaps seen as a passage between the earth and the
Otherworld. The most holy and the
largest of the waters, ( in Ireland at least)
the River Boyne and the River Shannon. The water of sacred wells was
also seen as a regenerative life-force,
perhaps to grow back severed limbs, make a woman conceive or give great wisdom
when drunk or bathed in it. . During Pagan times, carved totems, jewelry,
weapons and cauldrons were dropped into wells, lochs, and rivers as votive
offerings to the deities.
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