Well spirits are held by people
everywhere in great reverence and awe
This extract from Sir Rustom Masani’s book Folklore of Wells: Being a study of Water-worship in East and West (1918) shared with Parsiana by scholar Dr Simin Patel deals with the deities of water bodies.
When owners of houses are asked to fill up their wells or to cover them, they generally apply for permission to provide a wire-gauze cover or a trapdoor.
In not a few of these cases the application is prompted either by a desire "to enable the spirits in the well to come out,” or by the fear "lest the spirits should bring disaster” if they were absolutely......