Popular stories – fertility well

Habu Temple

In the courtyard of the Pharaonic Medinet Habu temple, west of Luxor, there is a frightening well that people have known by calling it “the well of al-Khuda”. If you want to see this well, you enter through its door and go down a stairway on both sides of the plant and then face the thresholds covered with stagnant water. This well is covered with rocks, and there is a hole in the ceiling of the well, through which a ray of light penetrates, dispelling some of its terrifying darkness, and in the cracks of that well live large bats. Legend says that a woman who is unable to conceive is taken to that well. Two tough men go down with her and sit near the water with the two men sitting next to her to catch her lest she falls into the well while a person outside is entrusted to throw a heavy stone from the well’s hole, without the woman’s knowledge of that. To throw the stone into the water until a violent bang occurs and the water dampens the woman’s face, and she cries out in terror, and then she becomes pregnant.