Folklore of Wales by Anne Ross

Author:Anne Ross
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9780750952460
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2013-06-22T04:00:00+00:00

35a Saint Teilo’s skull, Llandilo-isaf, Pembrokeshire. See A. Ross 1999, pl.4

People who wished to curse their enemies were in the habit of throwing bent pins into the well. In my own tradition a pin, bent or straight, was a fertility symbol and pins were thrown into the waters in order to promote fertility. In Anglesey, ffynnon Estyn had a strange reputation. Formerly the water used to be carried to the baptismal font. In recent times the local people have been unwilling to drink from it, saying that it was once a cursing well. Ceiniogau corff was the name given to the pennies that had been employed to close the eyes of a dead person, and these would be thrown as offerings into the well as the water was drunk. It was believed that to drink the water from ffynnon Fach in Montgomery would be fatal, but that it was safe to bathe in it.

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