sites of old rivers and streams and are presumed to be the remains of offerings to the water gods.
Druids
The druids held running water sacred, and there are other instances in myths and legends that moving water, such as that in garden waterfalls (http://www.garden-fountains.com/Detail.bok?no=79), is powerful. For example, the healing at the Pool of Bethesda in the Bible only happened after an angel caused the water to move.
Water into wine
The Germans collected spring water on Christmas night as the clock struck midnight was called heilwag, and was thought to be good for belly pain. It is still thought that water collected between 11 and midnight on Christmas and Easter night turns to wine. This could have a link back to Jesus’ first miracle of turning water into wine at the wedding feast in Cana. Magic water for divination was also collected before dawn on Sundays from three flowing large water features (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka7pRQ7R5ts).
Also on Easter, Hessian youths would go to the Hollow Rock in the mountains and draw up water. Before returning home they would throw flowers into the water as an offering, and no one ever dared go down before the flowers were sent. In other places, the water was thought to have