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Fountain of Youth
In popular legend, a fountain with the power of
restoring youth. It was much sought after, and at one time was supposed to
be in one of the
Bahamas Islands, possibly Bimini.
As the story goes, Juan Ponce de León
(1460-1521) — who had been with Columbus on his second voyage in 1493 and
who had later conquered and become governor of Puerto Rico — set out in
search of the Fountain of Youth in 1513, after learning of the fable from
the Indians of the Caribbean island. In the
process of his search, de León discovered Florida.
But the story did not start with Ponce de León,
nor was it unique to the New World. A Fountain or Well of Youth had appeared
in the
Alexander Romance, the
Travels of Sir John Mandeville and writings related to
Prester John long
before. Explorers of the time had a habit of
projecting onto newly-found places what they had read in books of fantastic
travels, as demonstrated by the naming of Amazonia, the insistence that
Ethiopia's king was Prester John, and the speculation that the Earthly
Paradise was to be found in Asia, the Americas, or wherever its seekers
happened to be looking.
Florida is home to the Fountain of Youth
National Archaeological Park, created as a tribute to the city's illustrious
history at the spot where Ponce de León is traditionally said to have
landed. Though the fountain situated there is not "the" Fountain, this does
not stop tourists from drinking its water.
See
Bimini,
Stonehenge,
Casting Black Magic Spells,
Commanding Spirits,
The Tarot Store and
Divination & Scrying Tools and
Supplies.
Sources: (1)
Dictionary of the
Occult, Caxton
Publishing;
(2) Steiger,
Brad and Sherry Hansen,
The Gale Encyclopedia of
the Unusual and Unexplained,
Thomson Gale; (3)
The Encyclopaedia
Britannica Eleventh Edition Handy Volume Edition,
Oxford University Press.
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