Note 53 — Chapter XXI · HOLY WELLS AND STREAMS
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The literature that I have chiefly consulted is as follows:—
R. C. Hope Holy Wells; their Legends and Traditions.
R. L. Quiller-Couch Ancient and Holy Wells of Cornwall.
W. G. Wood-Martin Traces of the Elder Faiths of Ireland.
G. L. Gomme Ethnology in Folklore.
Prof. Rhys Celtic Folklore, Manx and Welsh.
W. C. Borlase Dolmens of Ireland.
S. Baring-Gould A Book of the West.
[54] Traces of the Elder Faiths of Ireland, A Folklore Sketch, ii., p. 47.
[55] Pp. 11, 47.
[56] Celtic Folklore, Manx and Welsh, ii., p. 366.
[57] Wood-Martin, loc. cit., ii., p. 80.
[58] Standing Stones and Maeshowe of Stenness, by Magnus Spence, p. 13.
[59] That is from W. to E. through N., or E. to W. through S.; in the same direction as the hands of a clock.
[60] The Dolmens of Ireland, i., p. 3.
[61] Ibid., pp. 95, 765.
[62] Celtic Folklore, Manx and Welsh, i., p. 332.
[63] Borlase, loc. cit., p. 760.
[64] Ibid., p. 426.
[65] Rhys, Celtic Folklore, Manx and Welsh, p. 363.
[66] Pagan Ireland, p. 160.
[67] Rhys, Celtic Folklore, Manx and Welsh, i., pp. 354, 356, 357, &c.
[68] Rhys, ibid., p. 332.
[69] Ethnology in Folklore, p. 78.
[70] Sikes: British Goblins, p. 351.
[71] Sikes, idem., p. 329.
[72] Folklore, 1892, p. 89.
[73] Pagan Ireland, p. 145.
[74] Celtic Folklore, Manx and Welsh.
[75] Pagan Ireland, p. 160.
[76] Hope, p. 14.
[77] The Land’s End District, p. 72.
[78] Edmunds, p. 72.
[79] Hope, p. 40.
[80] St. Cleer = St. Cledod, A.D. 482. The arms of St. Cleer are the Sun in its glory.
[81] Description of Westmeath, 1682, quoted by Vallencey, i., 121.
[82] Hazlitt, ii., 616.