Show many still holve have faith in miraculous wells there are numerous wells throughout the british isles where the passer by has but to breathe a wish or drop a pin or other offering into the water to obtain what he wants from froin what was learned of st helens well apar sefton in young ladles still continue to throw pins into it to find out whether their sweethearts are faithful to them the dates of marriage and other details on which their future happiness bangs and tills this they learn from the turning of the pin to the north or to the south possibly to some other point of the at tober taber ellna greane or the well of the sun church found a century ago in county cork when a marsh was wag drained a spring was disclosed where according to legend a nymph of the well once lived this woman b had d a girt gift for prophecy and there was said to be a little wooden image of her there which would communicate with the people naturally ns as this report spread the people of the couri countryside flocked to the well three draughts of the water were taken by the pilgrims three times repeated ond and three times they made the rounds on their knees thus making a circuit of the well three times after each round the pilgrim laid a white stone about the size of a pig pigeons pons egg on the ancient altar in the circle which was called the well of the sun the revelry dancing and drinking that followed led to the discontinuance of the observances which were an example of sun worship surviving into modern times the nymph of the well manifested herself in the form of a trout but left when the well was desecrated |