When the original well-worship in relation with the temples became disestablished, if the well-worship were kept up at all, reasons other than the old one would soon be invented, and many of these would naturally be connected with magic and sorcery. In the oldest days the priest would be a physician as well as an astronomer and a magician, and his advice might be good for various disorders, but after he had disappeared there was only magic to depend upon; and this atmosphere is reflected in the traditions. I will now give a few extracts to show what goes on at present in certain localities with regard to the offerings, and the frame of mind of the devotees. With reference to the reasons for the offerings made in the present day, Wood-Martin writes:[73] “Wells were the haunts of spirits that proved to be propitious if remembered, but were vindictive if neglected, and hence no devotee approached the sacred precincts empty-handed, the principle being no gift no cure; therefore the modern devotee, when tying up a fragment from the clothing, or dropping a cake, a small coin, or a crooked pin into the well, is unconsciously worshipping the old presiding spirit of the place.” Rhys[74] gives us a great deal of information on this. The ritual varies at some of them. People came from far and near; it is the custom to make some sort of offering, rags and pins being the most modern, and about these we have most information as a matter of course. Rhys quotes statements he has received about three wells in the county of Glamorgan (Vol. 1, p. 356). At the first it was the custom “that the person who wishes his health to be benefited should wash in the water of the well, and throw a pin into it afterwards.” At another “the custom prevails of tying rags to the branches of a tree growing close at hand”; and at the third, “it is the custom for those who are healed in it to tie a shred of linen or cotton to the branches of a tree that stands close by; and there the shreds are almost as numerous as the leaves.” Further (p. 363) we read of another Ffynnon Faglan, and of this Rhys says, “One told me his mother used to take him to it when he was a child for sore eyes, bathe them with the water, and then drop in a pin. The other man, when he was young, bathed in it for rheumatism.” Of this well it is recorded that when it was cleaned out about fifty years ago “two basinfuls of pins were taken out,” which were all bent, but no coins were found in it. Wood-Martin[75] also gives an interesting account of the rite performed at a certain well in Ireland; it is a little more elaborate than at some, but affords an idea of what was probably at one time a very usual ceremony in connection with stones in other places.