单词 | rag-well |
释义 | > as lemmasrag-well rag-well n. a well at which rags are hung for ritual or superstitious purposes; cf. rag offering n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > kinds of sacrifice > [noun] > of rags > that on which rags are fixed rag-well1777 rag bush1834 rag-tree1880 1777 J. Brand Observ. Pop. Antiq. 85 A Well in the road to Benton..called The Rag Well. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 137 Ragwells, certain springs in the neighbourhood, held sacred in former days for curing diseases... Rags from the garments of those who recovered, were torn off and hung up as offerings to the patron saint of the well. 1957 E. E. Evans Irish Folk Ways (1967) xxi. 302 A rag-well at Clonmel is visited by mountain farmers who hang rag offerings on briars at lambing and calving times. 2000 K. Dowden European Paganism ii. 38 Sometimes the rag-well is associated with healing and the cloth with which the wound was bound and then bathed is hung, complete with the illness, in the tree. < as lemmas |
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