This seems to me to obviously be a story used to explain people dying from water born diseases after drinking bad well water (like cholera). This also explains why the church can't get rid of wellmen, and why throwing gold into the well gets rid of it (gold has antibacterial properties)
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This seems to me to obviously be a story used to explain people dying from water born diseases after drinking bad well water (like cholera). This also explains why the church can't get rid of wellmen, and why throwing gold into the well gets rid of it (gold has antibacterial properties)