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Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech
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"I think the strangest custom must be that of St Elvis Church where there are the remains of St Teilo's Well and Church with a pilgrims graveyard. It is said that the sick were brought here and given the holy water then laid to rest in the shade of a cromlech. If they slept all would be well but if they were visited by Caladruis (a ravenish bird of ill omen) their chances were not good. It seems rather like the stories of old people being bedded down in cold hospital corridors in the hope they would develop pneumonia – did that actually happen?"
Taken from; Burials; http://www.cenquest.co.uk/Home.htm
Left to die at a cromlech? bit like the Inuit's old people who were taken out into the snow to die.
St.Elvis never ceases to amaze......
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Posted by moss
17th March 2011ce
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