[ProtectOurFreedom]

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

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?

[M_Continuum]

Logic, I dig it 🖖

[kearnyirish2]

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

[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?

[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. :^)

[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.