St.Anne Holy Water

This holy water has been gathered from the Buxton Sacred Spring. Buxton’s St.Anne Well is the earliest site dedication to St.Anne in the UK, and was continuously dressed every year, a pagan practice that continued on long after Christianisation.

It’s a truly ancient well, used for blessings, fertility and healing.

St.Anne is the patron of sailors, ports, harbours, unmarried women, housewives, women in labor or who want to be pregnant, grandmothers, mothers and educators. She is also a patron of horseback riders, cabinet-makers, miners, homemakers, housewives, lace makers, seamstresses, old-clothes dealers, stablemen, poor people, childless people, marriage and the family. She is regarded here in the UK as the face of the great ancestors of the past. She is often consulted during love divination, and is invoked to remove and deflect the evil eye. She wears green and roses are sacred to her. Within British folklore, Anne is regarded as being a sacred temple within herself, where all holy things can reside within her.

More information about this specific well …

This well is an ancient well- dating back to a Romano-Celtic settlement who honoured the spring as much as we do today! It is maintained and worked with throughout the year because of it’s easy accessibility- and is used locally as a drinking source.

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

‘The Sun burnt clouds but glimmer to the fight,
when at fam’d Buxton’s hot bath we alight,
unto St. Ann the Fountain sacred is:
With waters hot and cold its sources rise,
And in its Sulphur-veins there’s medicine lies.
This cures the Palfied members of the Old,

And Cherishes the Nerves grown Stiff and cold.
Crutches the Lame unto its brink convey,
Returning the ungrades filing them away.
The Barren hither to be fruitful come,
And without help of spouse, go pregnant home,
into a ciltern Square, the water Flows
And seldom higher than five foot it goes.’

Thomas Hobbes- 17thC

PROPERTIES OF THIS HOLY WATER

This water specifically is known to be particularly gifted for working blessing, healing and fertility.

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 St.Anne.
• Can be used to bless a space, or an object.
• Can be used as an offering to St.Anne or the forgotten, or elder ancestors.

(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 St.Anne Well, Buxton, 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.