Mystic Wells - British Goblins CT030

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Mystic Wells

British Goblins: Welsh Folk Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1881) Book 4 Chapter 2

by Wirt Sikes

All about the beheading of St. Winnifred and the mystic well that sprang up where her head fell. How the waters of mystic wells can be either beneficent or malicious - they can cure diseases, mental or physical, as well as curing love-sickness. Sikes also tells us sooe of the stories associated with Barry Island.

Running Order:

• Their Good and Bad Dispositions 1:46
• St. Winifred's Well 4:48
• The Legend of St. Winnifred 6:35
• Miracles 9:28
• St. Tecla's Well 11:50
• St. Dwynwen's 12:44
• Curing Love Sickness 13:00
• St. Cynfran's 14:30
• St. Cynhafal's 15:23
• Throwing Pins in Wells 15:32
• Warts 15:36
• Barry Island and its Legends 17:08
• Ffynon Gwynwy 20:22
• Propitiary Gifts to Wells 21:02
• The Dreadful Cursing Well of St. Elian's 23:09
• Wells Flowing with Milk 25:34
• St. Illtyd's 25:50
• Tafi's Well 28:40
• Sanford's Well 29:31
• Origins of Superstitions of this Class 30:48

Names Used in this Section

All proper names, and words in Welsh or other languages, are recorded here in the show-notes and we've done our best to get the pronounciations right for you.

St. Winifred St. Tecla St. Cynfran St. Cynhafal Barry Island Ffynon Gwynwy St. Elian's St. Illtyd's Tafi Sanford Lourdes, France Cambria Ffynon Mair (Well of Mary) Holywell Duke of Westminster Drayton St. Winifred, or Gwenfrewi Elerius Robert of Salop Cotton MSS. Caradoc St. Beino Lethean Denbighshire Gwern Degla Llandegla Llandwyn, Anglesea Dan Cupid Ffynon Dwynwen (Fountain of Venus) Iolo MSS. Seithenhin the Drunkard Aphrodite 'Rhad Duw a Chynfran lwydd ar y da!' (the grace of God and blessed Cynfran on the cattle) Brychan Abergeleu St. George's Well Pennant Mars Llangynhafal parish, Denbighshire Gloucestershire Barry Island, near Cardiff St. Barruc, or Barri Lord Windsor St. Cadoc Gwalches Merlin Camarthen Etna Stromboli Typhonn Vulcan Camden Malkin Ffynon Gwynwy, near Llangelyniin church, Carnarvonshire Archaeologia Cambrensis Pliny Clitumnus Cyff-elian Llanelian, Denbighshire Penrhos Gower, near Swansea John the Baptist Canute River Taff Newton Nottage, Glamorganshire

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