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Scotch Superstitions in Lunacy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 February 2018
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- Part IV.—Notes, News, Correspondence, Appointments, &c.
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- Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1863
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* Le Clerc.Google Scholar
* In reference to this notice, I may mention that, some fifteen or twenty years back, a farmer from Letter Ewe is said to have brought a mad dog to the well on the island. It drank of the waters, and was cured; but the desecrating act is said to have driven virtue for a time from the well.Google Scholar
† In Gaelic, Maolonfhadh.Google Scholar
‡ St. Malochus.Google Scholar
§ A Lewis gentleman, reading this paper in manuscript, writes on the margin, “I know two persons who were brought to the temple. The result was favorable, but one has had a return of the malady. It is said that a visit to the church has no efficacy for a return of the disease.” Google Scholar
‖ Heron's ‘Journey,’ i, p. 282.Google Scholar
¶ This was asserted to me over and over again, but I think it improbable that this small island was the birthplace of all the three.Google Scholar
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