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Water symbolises life. It is, in fact, vital for life.

Water represents purity and healing.

Water cleanses and renews us.

But though it is fundamental to life, it can also mean our demise.

Its power is limitless and potentially dangerous.

Essential to life, it can also consume and drown us.

It can be contaminated with invisible disease, and in our necessary consumption can make us sick to death.

Water comes to us in various modes, from vast seemingly bottomless oceans, to swiftly flowing rivers, and the still fresh waters of a mountain lake.

It also comes to us in man or woman, made reservoirs and wells.

Human kind has been digging wells to access groundwater for drinking, for thousands of years.

Evidence has been found of wells, in the very early Neolithic era, in the Eastern Mediterranean, with the oldest reliably dated well in Cyprus, a well driven through limestone, dated from around 8400 BC.

And in their long history, wells have inspired folklore and superstition.

From European folklore, we find the wishing well, where our spoken wishes are granted.

This belief sprang from water as a source of life, and the belief that wells, house deities, or were a gift from God.

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