Aye! What he said!

There do seem to be a lot of these wells that have been used for ceremonies of some kind right up until around, oh, at a gues, the 1930's or somesuch...

Some are still visited today, not just by the likes of me, but by people that have simply "always done it"... I can't remember who it was now that mentioned here recently about an elderly chap who still regularly said prayers at a particular well.

Do we have any geologists or similar that could verify something for me? Do these springs just suddenly appear? Or is it more likely that they HAVE been there for a very long time?

What I mean is, a lot of the wells that I see as being christianised - is it likely that they just "appeared" during christian times (as most of the legends now tell) or would they have been there ages before? It just seems an odd thing for a christian to do - revere a well or water source. Just seems to me to be more "natural" than a godly miracle... aargh! I'm having trouble articulating my thoughts properly! I just mean that these natural occurrences seem more likely to me to be appreciated by yer Pagans rather than yer christians, and that the latter would have nicked the idea like they always did to stop this ungodly lot from worshipping false idolos or whatever the hell it is they go on about! ;o)

Hmm?

G x