The days for visiting St Euny’s Well in Cornwall were the first three Wednesdays in May. Like St Madern’s Well, it was a place where people came to settle their doubts and cure their ills by the water. Peter Roberts gave it alongside the Welsh holy wells to show how widely such beliefs ran.
St Euny’s Well on the Wednesdays of May
the first Wednesday on or after 1 May · Cornwall
No longer kept
At St. Euny's well, which is similar in nature to that at St. Maddern's, the days were the three first Wednesdays in May.
From Roberts's Cambrian Popular Antiquities, p. 253. Read the original
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