On the top of the Touch Hills, in Stirlingshire, rises St. Corbet's Spring. The belief formerly prevailed that whoever drank its water before sunrise on the first Sunday of May would have life prolonged for another year. As a consequence, crowds flocked to the spot early on the day in question. In 1840 some old people were still living who, in their younger days, had taken part in these annual pilgrimages. In mediæval times, the belief prevailed that no one baptised with the water of Trinity Gask Well, Perthshire, would be attacked by the plague. When water for baptism was drawn from some holy well in the neighbourhood, its use, in most instances, was doubtless due to a belief in its prophylactic power. As already mentioned, baptisms in St. Machar's Cathedral, Old Aberdeen, were at one time administered in water taken from the saint's spring. Before the Reformation the water used at the chapel of Airth, in Stirlingshire, is believed to have been procured from a well, dedicated to the Virgin, near Abbeyton Bridge. We do not know of any spring in Scotland with a reputation for the prevention of hydrophobia. St. Maelrubha's Well, on Innis Maree, is said to have lost its efficacy for a time through contact with a mad dog. What happened, when a mad bull was plunged into the Holy Pool at Strathfillan, will be alluded to later. In the village of Les Saintes Maries, in the south of France, is an interesting twelfth-century church with a well in the crypt. The water, when drunk, is said to prevent any evil consequences from the bite of a mad dog. Mr. E. H. Barker gives an account of this well in his "Wayfaring in France." He says, "The curé told me that about thirty people, who had been bitten by dogs said to be rabid, came annually to drink the water; and, he added, 'not one of them has ever gone mad.' M. Pasteur had become a formidable rival of the well." CHAPTER VII. WATER-CURES. Trying different Springs--Curing all Diseases--Fivepennies Well --Water and Dulse--Special Diseases--Toothache--Sore Eyes-- Blindness--Headaches and Nervous Disorders--Deafness-- Whooping-cough--Gout--Sores--Ague--Sterility--Epilepsy-- Sacrifice of a Cock--St. Tegla's Well--Insanity--Severe Treatment --Innis-Maree--Struthill--Teampull-Mòr--Hol y Pool--Fillan's History and Relics--Persistence of Superstition.