The Fountain of Youth in the movies - Medievalists.net
Medievalists.net Menu By Murray Dahm Legends of the Fountain of Youth, a spring whose waters will restore youth to anyone who drinks them, stretch back into classical antiquity. Accounts can be found in the ancient Greek writer Herodotus and the historians of Alexander the Great. In the New World, the indigenous Arawak people of Hispaniola had a legend of a land of wealth, Beimeni/Beniny, located somewhere to their northwest. Other legends told of Bonica (perhaps in the gulf of Honduras) which was likewise associated with a Fountain of Youth. These legends soon led to expeditions in the 16th ...
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