A clootie well where shoes pants socks and rags can be seen historically visitors brought rags to clootie wells and tied them to nearby trees in the belief that the offering would cure sickness.
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In the heart of culloden woods near the battlefield is a walled clootie well also known as st mary s well.
To reach the littleburn car park turn right about 2 miles 3 2 km along this road and follow the single track road for just over mile 400 metres.
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In scotland by the village of munlochy on the a832 is a clootie well at an ancient spring dedicated to saint curetán where rags are still hung on the surrounding bushes and trees here the well was once thought to have had the power to cure sick children who were left there overnight.
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Clootie wells are wells or springs almost always with a tree growing beside them with an assortment of garments or rags left often tied to the branches of the trees surrounding the well.
You ll see the brightly coloured rags near the car park entrance.
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