Helið is a God or Goddess mentioned in a few late sources and associated with the
Cerne Abbey. The earliest of these sources is a tale about Augustine
destroying her idol by William of Coventry. Located at the abbey is a
holy spring which may have been there in the day of her worship there.
John Leland writing in the sixteenth century associated Helith with the
“Saxon Esculapius, or preserver of health.” The fact the
names do resemble known Middle and Early Modern English words for
health also adds some credence to this possibility this God or Goddess
existed as an Anglo-Saxon Heathen deity.