medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Not just Saxon, perhaps. We get clooties left at the Holy Wells here in
west Cornwall, scraps of usually cloth, but also tinsel and plastic ribbon, tied
to twigs and branches of overhanging trees. Rarely the effect is pretty,
mainly it's messy; neither is the point, I dare say. My understanding is that
they are meant as gifts of value, but I suspect that nowadays the meaning is
lost and people just do what they 'always' did. I further suspect that the
practice, locally at least, is actually of recent origin.
Susan
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