Teilo

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: Teilo's Well, a little above the house: she added that it was considered to have the property of curing the whooping-cough (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "Teilo's Well, a little above the house: she added that it was considered to have the property of curing the whooping-cough."

• attestation: Teilo's skull,' was the answer (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "Teilo's skull,' was the answer."

• attestation: Teilo — not simply one — and so like were they in features and stature that nobody could tell which were the corpses made to order and which the old one (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "Teilo — not simply one — and so like were they in features and stature that nobody could tell which were the corpses made to order and which the old one."

• attestation: a dead Teilo each (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "a dead Teilo each."

• attestation: So the belief prevailed that to drink out of the skull some of the water of Teilo's Well ensured health, especially against the whooping-cough (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "So the belief prevailed that to drink out of the skull some of the water of Teilo's Well ensured health, especially against the whooping-cough."

• attestation: Teilo: in fact, one would possibly be right in supposing that the sanctity of the well and its immediate surroundings was one of the causes why the site was chosen by a Christian missionary (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "Teilo: in fact, one would possibly be right in supposing that the sanctity of the well and its immediate surroundings was one of the causes why the site was chosen by a Christian missionary."