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The following version of the story of the well appeared in The Antiquary (Volume 26) and was an article by R. C. Hope: | The following version of the story of the well appeared in The Antiquary (Volume 26) and was an article by R. C. Hope: | ||
''On the south bank of the Dighty, opposite the churchyard, is the Nine Maidens' Well, a name of which tradition has handed down an explanation too interesting to be passed over. '' | ''On the south bank of the Dighty, opposite the churchyard, is the Nine Maidens' Well, a name of which tradition has handed down an explanation too interesting to be passed over. '' | ||
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''They left their victims, and, wriggling their way towards the hills, hotly pursued by the youth and his companions, were destroyed near the base of the Sidlaws.'' | ''They left their victims, and, wriggling their way towards the hills, hotly pursued by the youth and his companions, were destroyed near the base of the Sidlaws.'' | ||
The above account has the nine maidens being killed by two snakes, where as other and more popular versions have the well being guarded by a dragon. | The above account has the nine maidens being killed by two snakes, where as other and more popular versions have the well being guarded by a dragon. | ||
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In his ''Folklore of Scottish Lochs and Springs'' (1893), James Mackinley states that ''These maidens were the daughters of a certain Donewalde or Donald in the eighth century, and led, along with their father, a saintly life in the glen of Ogilvy in the same county.'' | In his ''Folklore of Scottish Lochs and Springs'' (1893), James Mackinley states that ''These maidens were the daughters of a certain Donewalde or Donald in the eighth century, and led, along with their father, a saintly life in the glen of Ogilvy in the same county.'' | ||
The map below will give a location fairly close to the well, but unfortunately | The map below will give a location fairly close to the well, but unfortunately the exact location is hard to pinpoint. It was said to be 'north of the railway, 50 yards west of the road leading to West Mill of Baldoran.' | ||
