Healing stones
Extract from MS249 The Atholl Experience
Blair saddle stone
For many hundreds of years, and almost to within living memory,
the sick were taken to healing wells and stones as for many an
invalid they were the last hope for a cure. There were a
great many of these in Perthshire and those wishing to be cured had
to choose their well or stone carefully...
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[In] Blair Atholl there was the
famous Saddle Stone. It is situated at the south end of Loch
Loch in the midst of Ruigh na Diollaide, 'Shieling of the saddle',
where the remains of 40 circular and rectangular shieling bothies
are visible. A strange tradition existed that if any lady who
was not blessed with children sat on the Saddle Stone, she would in
due course become the happy mother of a large family.
Source: The Atholl Experience, Volume 2 (2), p 61
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Illustration:
Braid-Allaban,
Johan Blaeu extract of 'Atlas Novus', 1654 |
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