At 09:27 PM 12/21/1999 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi, Mara!
>
>Interesting question. Rattue has some statistics in 'Living Stream',
Thank you very much for the detailed reply, Christine! I really must get
hold of Rattue's book someday. I started to doubt my impression of the
prevalence of female well "guardians" when I took a look at "The Holy Wells
of Wales." Without doing any sums, (the references take up several pages,
and it's hard to tell the gender of some of the more obscure saints) there
looked at first glance to be far more male than female saints. If that's
the case, I wonder why that would be so in Wales and not in England?
Thanks again,
Mara
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