Lludd Holy Water- Nodens

This holy water has been gathered from the Ludwell near Hartington. The water is used for healing and sleep incubation.

This holy well has been used since the folks in the local area can remember. Surrounded by cairns and Iron Age hillforts, this well is dedicated to Lludd/ Nodens.

It’s always been used locally as a healing spring, which is located within a healing cave. It’s a spring that never dries out, and so was often ritually dressed at certain times of the year in days gone by. The spring was used as a water source during living memory, until some potholers damaged the caves.

Who is Lud/Nodens here?

Nodens is a Pre-Roman British Woodland Spring God of healing, sleep incubation, dogs and hunting. He is linked to Lludd, a Welsh God and Nuada, an Irish God. Locally, it seems to be the Sleep incubation and healing aspects that are more focused on.

More information about this specific well …

The well’s dedicated to Lludd or Noden is one of many branches. The route that Nodens as a name takes to reach Lud is via the English transliteration coming from Nodens, to Lydan (Old English) to Lod/Lud. (Or alternatively could be through the alliteration technique we see with the welsh Lludd)

The area actually has a etymological convergent evolution, with the spring being described as both Llud’s spring, as it is an underground cave spring that mists, but was also called ‘hlud waella’ which means ‘loud spring’. The surrounding village is called Ludwell. Pilsbury, mere yards away is home to Pislbury castle- originally a Romano-British Settlement.

Other Lyd- wells, temple complexes and caves, such as the Bath house at the Lydney Park temple complex- tend to be places of healing- particularly incubation healing, which was often performed with a cave or specially built enclosed space alongside water. In Romano-British Belief, Nodens was often associated with Silvanus or Mars. (Silvanus being another hunting woodland, God that often featured in sleep incubation rituals alongside Diana)

Although there is no definitive proof that sleep incubation happened at this site during ancient times, many folk stories collected from the area suggest that people often do enter the cave specifically to sit and receive healing. Having visited this large cave, we can confirm that the cave is easily big enough for many people to enter to receive healing.

You can use this water to bless your candles, add to cleansing water, drop some on spirit pouches, wash down doorframes and much more!

PROPERTIES OF THIS HOLY WATER

This water specifically is known to be particularly gifted for working healing, and sleep incubation magic. It is also seen as a type of water that can be used to access the underworld. It can be used as a devotional water to Nodens or Lludd, and so can be used to ask for his other domains, such as hunting.

WAYS TO USE THIS HOLY WATER

There are many different ways to use Holy Spring Water.

• As a surface cleanser- diluted. Not only for your traditional items, such as doorframes and floors- but also wiping down the outside of novendialia candles.
• Dropping water on to a spirit pouch. If you have a spirit pouch or a another contained working working towards something like justice- this water would be great to sprinkle a couple of drops on.
• Adding it to asperging water mixtures- including perfume sprays.
• Mixing it into a little bit of salt to have on the altar.
• Can be used as a consecration water, to consecrate an item to Nodens or Lludd.
• Can be used to bless a space, or an object.
• Can be used as an offering to Nodens, or as a portal through which to give the offerings.

(And many more ways of working)

HOW THIS WATER WAS COLLECTED

This water was collected as part of a pilgrimage Tarn went on around the Peak District.

An appropriate offering and blessings were left to pay the spirits the use of their well for workings. Blessings were placed upon the rocks surrounding the well, and especially the trees. Bottles were submerged into the cool mountain water with a prayer, and consecrated salt and spar stanes were added later to the individual bottles. All rituals were made in accordance with the Indigenous Fairy Faith, and animistic beliefs of the land.

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This water was gathered from the Lud Well, Ludwell nr Hartington, Derbyshire, and has added salt for preservation and cleansings, as well as holy spar stanes. This water is undiluted, but can be diluted again by 2 parts, according to tradition. 

This product comes in a 30ml Glass bottle with a Stopper Cap.

 Under UK law I have to state that this should not be used internally or externally. This Product is intended for magical use only, Curio only. Use at Own risk.