> From: Madeleine Gray [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>
> No correlation that I can see from the sites I can identify.
>
Thanks very much for checking!
> The most
> famous cursing well at Ffynnon Elian near Colwyn Bay is in a small valley:
> we visited it last summer. Most of the sites quoted by Jones were
> dual-function, and Ffynnon Elian itself had been a healing well before it
> acquired the cursing function. The present owner is trying to restore it
> and have it reconsecrated to return to its original focus, but there has
> been considerable local hostility to the idea of doing anything to it at
> all because of the fear that it might again become a cursing well. (This
> is
> why I haven't put anything about it on Katy's website!)
>
I guess this proceeds from the notion that if you neglect a well,
its power decreases or goes dormant? This also sounds like continuing faith
in the efficacy of wells, positive or negative.
Are there any landmarks that customarily accompany a well site in
Wales? For example, in Ireland there's often a very large or prominent tree
of some sort and either a hill or a standing stone. The three items--well,
stone/hill, and tree--seem to have formed a ritual complex in those cases.
Francine
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