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The Healing Powers of the Well

I remember getting dragged off to a holy well when i was probably tan by my mother, because i had a veruca, or a planter's wart on my foot. So we travelled a long distance so that i could get my foot dipped into the well and cured by the well. Now, it did get cured, but was it the spiritual healing powers of the well, or i don't know, but was i belief? Yes, that's certainly a factor. And your mother did this t you'd found a long drive to take care of a wart by dropping it into holy well. I just took a friend to a healer in county lowth where i live. She got a

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