Wisht Waters ~ The Cult & Magic of Water

Description

Wisht Waters examines the lore of holy wells and their associated cultic activities. These places of liminality and otherworldly congress are haunted by eldritch presences, rituals of magic and customs.

The sheer diversity of magic connected with sacred wells and springs is remarkable. Inseparable from the ancient cults of saints and spirits of place. The natural springs and wellheads of the British Isles have come to be a famed loci of healing, divination, and spiritual revelation. Possessing long traditions of votive and sacrificial offerings. They have assumed powers of spirit-guardianship or divinities of water.

Blessings, cursing, healings and the dispensation of prophetic power. These repositories of lore are connected with the cult of the skull and Holy Head. In almost every case there is a specific magical relation between the waters as a medium of spirit and the surrounding features of the land.

First published by Three Hands Press in 2014 as part of the Occult Monograph Series. Troy Books has reissued Gemma Gary’s book with the addition of extensive photography.