Have you noticed that when you take a photograph of a sacred site which is near a waterfall or well your image usually includes orbs? It doesn’t happen everywhere, but if a place hasn’t yet been overrun with people, there always seems to be orbs dancing in the atmosphere. With wells it is usually at the entrance, but with waterfalls the orbs are literally everywhere.
I visited St. Nectan’s Glen in Cornwall during the Autumn months and was able to stand next to the waterfall. These photographs were taken on that day.
St Nectan’s Glen is in Cornwall, Great Britain. To get to St Nectan’s Glen one must follow a trail that leads down into a wooded glen and runs along the course of the Trevillet River, crossing over a footbridge, before climbing to the Kieve and hermitage. The walk is about a mile (1.6 kilometers) in length.
The main falls is known as the Kieve and is a plunge pool or basin fed by a 60-foot-high (18 metre) waterfall on the Trevillet River.
St. Nectan’s Kieve is believed by some to be a cloutie well. Cloutie wells are places of pilgrimage in Celtic areas. They are wells or springs, usually with a tree growing near where strips of cloth or ribbons have been tied to the branches of the tree in remembrance of loved ones, for wishes, and for healing.
The orbs in the photographs are interesting aren’t they?
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