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Ingegerd Holand
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From: Ingegerd Holand <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: 15. november 1998 11:34
Subject: Re: Holy wells and springs
>From the replies I have had so far (thanks to everyone!), there seems to be
>two opposite views of the subject, some people saying that there is too
>little evidence to claim a pre-Christian origin for all holy wells and
>springs, others that there is no evidence for a purely Christian origin for
>any of them.
>So, let me ask another, perhaps naive, question: Why would the Christian
>church want to *establish* holy wells and springs? Isn't it a basically
>pagan feature, of the sort that the early church wanted to get rid of, or
>christianize if it was already there? What would be the point of inventing
>new holy wells - to draw in the crowds, counteract the pagan ones, or?
>
>Ingegerd
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