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Details snipped from... http://www.bath.ac.uk/lispring/sourcearchive/fs3/fs3lh1.htm Reached by taking an overgrown track leading westward onto Tredinney Common from the Iron Age settlement at Carn Euny near Brane, two miles west of Sancreed. As this path begins to widen, after about 100 yards, the well is immediately on the left. It consists of a flight of steps leading down to a clear spring in a stone lined recess with a large granite capstone. Another smaller well lined with four large granite slabs lies a few feet to the north west and carved stones from the chapel which once stood here may be seen in the surrounding undergrowth. Services were held at the well chapel during the 18th century and the site has only been neglected since then. The stonework of the well is still in a good condition. |
Posted by phil 18th December 2001ce Edited 4th June 2003ce |
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Spriggans from nearby Bartinney Downs substitute a child with one of their own? Or just plain child abuse. Make your mind up with the song at http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/prwe/prwe033.htm Hunt's 'Popular Romances of the West of England' (1886). Here's an extract that mentions the ritual at the well which Janey attempts to get rid of the changeling. On the three first Wednesdays in flow'ry May |
Posted by Rhiannon15th June 2005ce |
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Dr. Borlase says : "I happened luckily to be at this well upon the last day of the year, on which, according to vulgar opinion, it exerts its principal and most salutary powers. Two women were here, who came from a neighbouring parish, and were busily employed in bathing a child. They both assured me that people who had a mind to receive any benefit from St. Euny's Well must come and wash upon the three first Wednesdays in May." Children suffering from mesenteric disease should be dipped three times in Chapel Uny "widderschynnes," and widderschynnes" dragged three times round the well,. from the v interesting online version of "THE LEGENDARY LORE OF THE HOLY WELLS OF ENGLAND INCLUDING Rivers, Lakes, Fountains and Springs. COPIOUSLY ILLUSTRATED BY CURIOUS ORIGINAL WOODCUTS. BY ROBERT CHARLES HOPE, F.S.A., F.R.S.L.," which can be viewed at http://www.antipope.org/feorag/wells/hope/contents.html courtesy of 'Feorag'. |
Posted by Rhiannon 7th June 2002ce |
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