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Loup.' This is one tradition of the origin of the name. A tinker that 

 ■was passing along the road entered a house in which ' bleedy puddins ' 

 were being cooked for supper. No one was in the house. He seized the 

 puddings and made his escape from the house. He was seen and pursued. 

 He was on the point of being caught. To save himself he leapt the river 

 at the spot that bears his name, and then sat down on the opposite side 

 to rest and to enjoy his feast of ' bleedy puddins.' 



683. Corsock. — There is an island in Loch Urr. A shepherd, accom- 

 panied by his dog, one day waded across the shallow part of the loch. 

 Having reached the island, he laid himself down under some bushes as 

 the day was warm. He began scratching the gi'ound with his stick. He 

 turned up a piece of turf, and under it he saw a pot of gold. He looked 

 behind him, and near him stood a creature in shape of a man with eyes 

 as ' big as a broth plate an' legs as thick as a corn sack.' He held a paper 

 in his hand. He asked the shepherd to sign it, and said to him that the 

 cold would be his if he did so. The dog in the meantime had taken to 

 Hi^ht in complete terror. When the shepherd heard the terms of getting 

 the gold, and noticed how the dog had behaved, he turned and ran. The 

 dof^ in fright fled to the house, rushed below the bed, and would not leave 

 his place of refuge for some days. Search was afterwards made for the 

 treasure, but in vain. Another version of the tradition states that the 

 shepherd dreamed that there was a pot of gold hidden on the island, 

 and thus was led to search for it. 



684. There is a well called the Lag "Wine Well in the parish of 

 Carsphairn. The tradition is that there is in it a lump of gold which is 

 guarded by the devil. On one occasion some men resolved to lead away 

 the water from the well to dry it so as to reach the gold. They met and 

 began cutting a trench. They had not been long at work till the sky 

 grew black as night, and a thunderstorm, accompanied with torrents of 

 rain, burst over them. At the same time such swarms of ' mowdies,' 

 i.e., moles, came out of the ground that the diggers were put to flight. 



685. Kirkpatrick-Durham. — When St. Patrick left Kirkpatrick- 

 Durham, he blessed a well close beside the churchyard. On March 17 

 the one that was sufiering from any disease that first went to the well, 

 drew water from it, and drank it was healed of the ailment. A woman 

 drowned a child in it, and the healing virtue departed from its water. 

 (Told in Kells.) 



686. Kirkcudbright. — When the branches of an ash-tree growing 

 out of the old castle wall, and the branches of a berry-bush growing 

 out of the wall of the old school meet, the town of Kirkcudbright and 

 the district of the country ten miles round it will sink below the level 

 of the sea. The branches of the ash tree have been cut several times. 



Caves. 



687. Kirkmaiden. — In the parish of Kirkmaiden, at the Mull, there is a 

 cave and in the cave there is a stone. My informant saw about thirty 

 years ago buttons, pins, pieces of iron and rags lying on it and around it. 



688. Kirkmaiden. — In the parish of Kirkmaiden there is on the 

 ed^e of the public road on the east side of the parish a cave called 

 the Grenan Cave. A dog on one occasion entered it on the east side, 

 and came out on the west side of the point at a place called Slockmona. 



689. Parton. — There was a time not long ago when a field on the farm 



