England’s Ancient Healing Wells

Healing wells have always fascinated me, giving rise to questions such as, do they really exist, are they just myths or are there actual facts about them based on hard cold evidence. Doing a bit of research I came up with some very interesting facts from some of the healing wells located in England and here is what I found.

Apparently a great many well documented cases of healings have in fact taken place all around England at ancient healing wells. Like many other ancient healing wells in the Celtic lands all over Europe they were thought to be a Christianized, pagan holy place. To the Celts the springs were seen as entrances to the underworld. They were thought to be very powerful places because the water came from within the earth mother.

One such case is of a man named John Trelille who for 16 years was so badly crippled he could only move about by crawling on his hands and knees, until one night he had a dream that he was healed by the ancient holy well at Madron, not far from his home in Cornwall, England. It was in the mid spring, May, when the waters were said to be at their most holy and powerful so John made his way to the tiny ruined baptistery set deep within the depths of a wooded area.

Taking note of the prescribed procedures that were very similar to those required at the sleep/healing temples of ancient Greece, John prayed and washed himself in the waters that seeped into the old stone basin. He went back to the well, twice afterwards, as it was the custom for the healing ritual. As stated when he first went he could not even walk but by the time he was done with the ritual he was able to walk unaided and grew steadily stronger. So strong in fact that he went on to become a solider of distinction and was killed in battle in 1644.

There was many similar cases of healing that have been recorded from the well at Mandron, which was also used for divination. Another place of note and one that gives rise to the thought that the belief of healing wells is much older then the pagan Celts is hinted by the name of the River Kennet, which stems from the Swallowhead spring, next to Europe’s greatest Neolithic mound located on Silbury Hill,at Avebury, in southern England. The word ‘Kennet’ comes from the rivers old name Cunnit which is a possible word that has survived from Neolithic tongue itself, and refers to both the vulva and wisdom,hence the word cunning. Apparently any herbs growing around Swallowhead were held in high regard for the potent healing properties.

Upon finding quite a bit of evidence I have included the facts mentioned above because they fascinated me the most. So in answering first questions, there is evidence that healing wells do exist and they do work, however; this gives rise to another question, is it mind over matter? Perhaps these people who have been healed believe so strongly in these wells that they actually heal themselves from faith alone! Or are the legends of the wells actually true and maybe, just maybe they are entrances to the underworld making them truly powerful places. I suppose either way, I have discovered the answer I was looking for when beginning this search and regardless of either way, it still comes down to the same thing, they do work in one way or another.

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