Archaeologists Unearth 3,000-Year-Old Wishing Well in Germany

Smithsonian Magazine ^ | January 18, 2023 | Sarah Kuta

[Mark17]

The last person to use the well wished that it would be lost and not discovered again for 3000 years.

He probably got his wish. 🤗

[null and void]

You’ve always got something to hide;
Something you just can’t tell.
And the only time that you’re satisfied
Is with your feet in the wishin’ well.

[ViLaLuz]

Great album!

[week 71]

As long as some girl with long brown hair doesn’t emerge from it.

[Tupelo]

Wishing well? Or maybe the stash of Heinz the Highwayman.

[MD Expat in PA]

Cindy, the TV’s leaking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxCSMcg44_E

[week 71]

LOL! Had never seen that.

[kearnyirish2]

That was how Irish coastal settlements protected their valuables from Viking raids; hide them in the well.

[Beowulf9]

I have some of those :)

[moovova]

"Come on, those people were very poor and didn’t have much in the way of worldly goods to toss into a “wishing well.”"

Lol...do you think poor people don't buy lottery tickets?

[Leep]

surprising.. most just jumped the turn style.

[SunkenCiv]

Obviously they did have nice possessions, made locally, and were just as superstitious as people are today.

The origin of the wishing wells, at least in Europe, had to do with preventing a world flood, btw. :^)

[SunkenCiv]

Dang thing works!

[SunkenCiv]

I throw on “Fox Chase” every now and then.

[SunkenCiv]

The Irish surely didn’t dig wells for the water... /rimshot

Three Irishmen walked out of a pub.

Hey, it could happen.

[SunkenCiv]

These archaeologists did well...

[SunkenCiv]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF-oko-c8EM

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/oct/05/why-terence-trent-darby-became-sananda-maitreya-it-was-that-or-death

[SunkenCiv]

Originally, there was a sign over the well, "exact change only".

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Archaeologists hypothesize that area residents were suffering from poor harvest yields and a long drought...***

They had Glo-Bull Warming back then? Who knew!

[DouglasKC]

Wouldn’t it be more likely that invaders were coming and they put their valuables in the well hoping they could survive the raid and retrieve them later?

Thanks for the common sense answer. It's like finding buried treasure and theorizing that pirates were sacrificing to their gods.