Excerpts from an interview with Danny Griffen about Wether’s Well For this interview's catalogue entry click here

Excerpt 1: Narrative on how Whether's Well got its name

Excerpt 2: Calendar customs: paying the rounds at Wether's Well

Excerpt 3: Miracle cures at Wether's Well

Excerpt 4: Difference between locals and tourists visiting the well

Excerpt 5: Doing the round at Wethers Well

Excerpt 6: How to perform the round for the cures

Excerpt 7: Hanging strings near the well and hawthorn tree without thorns

Excerpt 8: Narrative about a reappearing altar on Bullocks hill

Excerpt 9: Narrative about the fish of the well and water that wouldn't boil

Excerpt 10: Religious custom: yearly mass said at wether's well since 1984

Excerpt 11: Holy wells ritual and practices

Excerpt 12: Pattern Day at holy wells

Excerpt 13: The feast of St Brendan

Excerpt 14: About the various stories of the origins of the well and its name

Excerpt 15: About Rome's no recognition of Celtic saints

Excerpt 16: Calendar customs at wether's well and bonfires night in the late 1940s

Excerpt 17: Reasons why people go to wethers well; version of the bullock hill legend of the reappearing altar

Excerpt 18: On cures and folk religion practices

Excerpt 19: On folk belief and cures

24-25/02/1991

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