Statistical Account of Scotland_:
"Numbers from Sutherland, Caithness, Ross-shire, and even from
Inverness and Orkney, come to this far-famed loch."

The holy well of Kilvullen, on the Irish coast, is as good as
Lochmanur. Every year, in the month of August, there are high
festivals held there. The water has a wonderful repute for healing
qualities. It has worked miraculous cures ever since the great saint
of Kilvullen flourished in the parish. The inhabitants have vague
though reverential notions of the date of St. Kilvullen's existence.
That he was of foreign extraction would appear to be proven, some way
or other, through a boulder lying on the beach, on which, it is
stated, the blessed Kilvullen travelled here direct from Rome, with a
commission from the Pope to convert the Irish. To wriggle under a
cavity in this stone and come out on the other side, is an infallible
remedy for lumbago.

There is a mountain not far distant from Kilvullen with a gap in it,
supposed to have been made by a single bite of the devil. There is
scarcely an eminence in Ireland out of which the demon has not
devoured a bit. Travellers are shown the devil's bites, the devil's
gaps, and the devil's punch-bowls, over nearly every part of the
country.

Dr. Arthur Mitchell, while lecturing on Scottish superstition, said:
"The adoration of wells continues in certain aspects to the present
day, from John-o'-Groat's to the Mull of Galloway. I visited a well at
Craiguck, in the parish of Avoch, Ross-shire, some years ago, and
found numerous offerings fastened to a tree beside it; and of at least
a dozen wells in Scotland the same thing is more or less true. An
anxious loving mother would bring a sick child to such a well at early
morning on the 1st May, bathe the child, then cause the little one to
drop an offering into the well--usually a pebble, but sometimes a
small coin. Then a bit of the child's dress was attached to a bush or
tree growing on the side of the well. These visits were paid in a
spirit of earnestness and faith, and were kept more or less secret.
Some of the wells have names of Christian saints attached to them; but
I never knew of a case in which the saint was in any way recognised or
prayed to. There is reason to believe these wells were the objects of
adoration before the country was christianised, and that such
adoration was a survival of the earlier practice to which Seneca and
Pliny referred."

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