I'd heard this also from Cubans practicing their variation of Yoruba, so guess its also part of Yoruban culture. They have a custom of keeping a jar of water around their living place. It can be a pot, or a bucket, or a nice ornamental vase, the container doesnt seem to matter. But what they stress is it has to be regularly emptied and refilled, usually once a day. The purpose of it is to absorb bad spirits that come around, the water is a kind of protection. If its left too long, then it has the opposite effect, the bad spirits collected start to come out from it.

I didn't believe it until recently, I had a spate of nightmares about things I couldn't make sense of, night after night, woke up screaming several nights in a row.

Then I remembered I'd left a large glass of water untouched beside my bed for probably weeks, since putting it there expecting to drink it one evening, but just forgot, then knowiing it was less than fresh after the first day, it just stayed, I kept putting off attending to it, thinking no harm done.

After I cleaned out and refilled the glass, the next night I slept better than I had in ages, and I have not had any nightmares since. I try to keep it refilled daily now.

Could be coincidence, or it could be placebo, for sure. But what is placebo, if it isn't just faith?

This is why I've been thinking a lot about faith lately.

Its something that conventional science seems to have a lot of scorn for, but actually we really need it, we should nurture it, its incredibly valuable and underrated imho, science doesn't realise it wouldn't exist, if it wasn't for faith.

Nothing at all would exist, if it wasn't for faith, and our soul starts to die when we have none, I think.

Glad you seem to have pots of it David, enough for all of us, and you are very generous with it, I really appreciate it :)

Thanks for the water spirituality cross reference also, and another great story with also more great pics as always.