Eye Spring of the Witches’ Hill

In the eastern part of the Witch’ Cliffs, a small niche has been formed by a spring of average strength that is known from ancient times as a holy spring entwined with tales. The spring with clear water outflows from a place where the sandstone bank of the Vaidava River is high and steep. In former times the local people believed that it is a health spring, because many used it for various eye diseases. But the spring would help only if a person sacrificed something to the spring, for instance, clothing, woolen thread or some other item.

The Eye Spring of the Witch’s Cliffs has gained its name due to two reasons. First of all, due to the fact that it looks like two weeping eyes – in reality they are two springs that outflow at the foot of the Old Witches’ Cliffs (Veco Raganu klintis). The spring water is clear, but there is doubt about the possibility to drink it, because it is located at the foot of the cemetery.
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