“Throughout the West the cult of water was flourishing along with the cult of trees and stones when Christianity found its way to Europe.

The holy wells which were then plentiful have since changed their names, but a few have still retained their old names. Thus there is or was a spring called Woden’s well in Gloucestershire, which supplies water to the moat around Wandswell Court, also a Thor’s Well, or Thorskill, in Yorkshire.

When the faith and usages of the Celtics and the Anglo-Saxons came in contact with Christianity, together with the still older faiths and customs which the Celt and Teuton had continued or allowed to continue, the new religion did not distinguish between the various shades of beliefs and usages. It merely treated all alike as pagan. Kings, Popes and Church Councils issued edict after edict condemning non-Christian practices.”

Excerpt From
Folklore of Wells / Being a Study of Water-Worship in East and West
R. P. Masani, 1918

“We have seen that water-worship was a cult of hoary antiquity. The belief that every locality has its presiding genius gave rise to the deification of fountains and rivers just as it led to the deification of hills and trees and other phases of animism.

The emphasis of animism lies in its localisation, in the local spirits which, to quote Tylor’s words, belong to mountain and rock and valley, to well and stream and lake, in brief, to those natural objects which in early ages aroused the savage mind to mythological ideas.”

Excerpt From
Folklore of Wells / Being a Study of Water-Worship in East and West
R. P. Masani, 1918

“What is classed as animism in ancient Aryan mythology is often no more than a poetical conception of nature which enables the poets to address the sun and moon, and rivers and trees as if they could hear and understand his words.”

Excerpt From
Folklore of Wells / Being a Study of Water-Worship in East and West
R. P. Masani, 1918

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