PREFATORY NOTE.
No work giving a comprehensive account of Well-worship in Scotland has yet appeared. Mr. R. C. Hope’s recent volume, “Holy Wells: Their Legends and Traditions,” discusses the subject in its relation to England. In the following pages an attempt has been made to illustrate the more outstanding facts associated with the cult north of the Tweed. Various holy wells are referred to by name; but the list makes no claim to be exhaustive.
J. M. M.
4 Westbourne Gardens,
Glasgow, December, 1893.
CONTENTS.
| CHAP. | PAGE | |||||||
| I. | [Worship of Water], | 1 | ||||||
| II. | [How Water became Holy], | 24 | ||||||
| III. | [Saints and Springs], | 39 | ||||||
| IV. | [More Saints and Springs], | 56 | ||||||
| V. | [Stone Blocks and Saints’Springs], | 72 | ||||||
| VI. | [Healing and Holy Wells], | 86 | ||||||
| VII. | [Water-Cures], | 108 | ||||||
| VIII. | [Some Wonderful Wells], | 128 | ||||||
| IX. | [Witness of Water], | 140 | ||||||
| X. | [Water-Spirits], | 155 | ||||||
| XI. | [More Water-Spirits], | 171 | ||||||
| XII. | [Offerings at Lochs andSprings], | 188 | ||||||
| XIII. | [Weather and Wells], | 213 | ||||||
| XIV. | [Trees and Springs], | 230 | ||||||
| XV. | [Charm-Stones in and out ofWater], | 241 | ||||||
| XVI. | [Pilgrimages to Wells], | 263 | ||||||
| XVII. | [Sun-Worship andWell-Worship], | 280 | ||||||
| XVIII. | [Wishing-Wells], | 314 | ||||||
| XIX. | [Meaning of Marvels], | 324 | ||||||
Among the works consulted are the following, the titles being given in alphabetical order:—