There is regular evidence of modern ritual practice at Binsey well near
Oxford - although I hope it never extends to drowning doggies !!
Thankfully, it's confined to candle stumps, crystals, bunches of
herbs/wheat being placed around the well. People do throw coins in
regularly but I suspect most of the money chucking is via tourist visitors
rather than having a formal ritual significance. It's interesting tho that
folk persist in chucking coins into flowing water/wells - they extract up
to one hundred pounds worth of coins a year from the fountain in the Castle
Mall shopping arcade in Norwich - but, when you ask most people why they do
it the response is generally vague & to do with it being "lucky" in an
unspecified way.
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