Llangybi, Gwynedd, Wales

Ffynnon Gybi

Ffynnon Gybi

The well can be found in a small building, and is actually a small “immersion pool” that is said to have been a cure for lameness, rheumatism, warts, scurvy and blindness. Its other purpose was for the divination of lover’s intentions if the well was visited on the Eve of Gwylm-ab-Sant. Girls who wished to know their lover's intentions would spread their pocket-handkerchiefs on the water of the well, and, if the water pushed the handkerchiefs to the south they knew that everything was right and that their lovers were honest and honourable in their intentions; but, if the water shifted the handkerchiefs northwards, they concluded the contrary.

 

NB We do not advise drinking from any of these sources.

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Llangybi (English: Cybi's Church) is a village in Gwynedd, Wales.

It is situated near Llanarmon.

Pictured left is Ffynnon Gybi courtesy of Stephen Elwyn Roddick. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.