{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/celt/prwe/prwe155.htm","path":"neu/celt/prwe/prwe155.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/prwe/prwe155.htm","text":"REDRUTH WELL.\nNO child christened in this well has ever been hanged. Saint Ruth, said to have been called Red Ruth, because she always wore a scarlet cloak, especially blessed, to this extent, those waters. I believe the population in this large parish cares but little now whether their children be baptized with this well water or any other; but, half a century since, it was very different. Then, many a parent would insist on seeing the water taken from the well and carried to the font in the church.","title":"Well Worship: Redruth Well","type":"page"}