How to Treat a Holy Well With Respect

A holy well has to be treated with respect because if you don't treat it with respect you can offend it. If a well is identified as being healing or life giving and there's fish living in that well you don't fish from that well. You don't kill any of the animals or insects that live in or around that well. One of the worst things you can do is to drown a person in a well but folklore exists to keep us the human animal in line with systems of biodiversity, he says.