From pagan water-worship to the saints who blessed springs across the Highlands and Islands, Mackinlay surveys how Scots treated their wells and lochs as holy. He covers healing wells and water-cures, wishing and cursing wells, rag and pin offerings, and the water-spirits and kelpies said to haunt lonely lochs, naming hundreds of sites.
The first comprehensive study of Scottish well-worship, published in 1893 and a gift for anyone who walks the Scottish countryside. Download the free EPUB.