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HOLY WELL AT LITTLE CONAN

ON Palm Sunday the people resorted to the well sacred to "Our Lady of Nants," with a cross of palm, and after making the priest a present, they' were allowed to throw the cross into the well; if it swam the thrower was to outlive the year, if sank he was not. [a]

[a] Carew.


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