If we may believe a local tradition, the Holy Pool lost its miraculous virtue in the following manner, though, after what the English antiquary mentioned about its water being mixed with meal, and given to diseased cattle, we see no reason why it should have been so particular. A farmer who had a mad bull thought that, if the sacred water could heal human ills, it would be efficacious also in the case of the lower animals. So he plunged his infuriated beast into the stream. What was the effect on the bull we do not know: but since then the virtue has departed from the water. Except for a pleasure dip on a hot summer's day, no one need now apply at the Holy Pool. The unbroken reputation of such health resorts, for centuries, is certainly remarkable. Strathfillan kept up its fame for over a thousand years. At Gheel, in Belgium, for fully twelve hundred years, successive generations of lunatics sought relief at St. Dympna's Well. We must not be too hard on the ages before our own; for, though in some respects dark, in other respects they had a good deal of light. Nevertheless, severe things might be said about them. From a present-day point of view, it might be argued that those, who took their insane friends to get cured in the manner described, required, like the patients themselves, a little rearrangement of their wits. CHAPTER VIII. SOME WONDERFUL WELLS. Wells Wonderful as to Origin--Tre Fontane--Springs where Saints were Beheaded--St. Alban's Spring--Covenanter's Spring--St. Vynning's Spring--Scottish and English Hagiology--Springs from Graves--Cuthbert--Milburga--Mysterious Lakes--Hell-Hole at Tunstall--King Henry's Well-- Bringing Sea to Morpeth--Plymouth Water-supply--Fitz's Well--Good Appetite--Dogs' Well--Singular Springs in Lewis and Barray--Well in the Wall--Toubir-ni-Lechkin--Power of Wells over Lower Animals--Black Mere--Well at Gillsland--Intermittent Springs--Powbate Well--St. Ludvan's Well--St. Keyne's Well. The epithet wonderful may fitly be applied to whatever springs are endowed by popular credulity with mysterious properties. Those already considered have been mainly associated with the removal or prevention of disease. It is now proposed to glance at certain other characteristics.