Notes.
178. "In parts of Galloway, the old belief still exists that water drawn at midnight before New Year has peculiar luck-bringing qualities and will undoubtedly help a girl who draws it to find a husband before next Hogmanay. The first jug-full is termed the “flower” or the “cream,” and on the stroke of midnight there is keen competition among the girls to secure it." Gall. 1939 F. Drake-Carnell It's an old Sc. Custom 32–33. DSL: CREAM
557. "Five Cairns: A hill of considerable altitude, and one of the Lowther range, on which five persons who committed suicide are interred all in one grave, some people apply the name to the Cairn and others to the hill." Ordnance Survey Name Book Entry, OS1/10/14/4
652. "Bargain Strand: A small stream taking its rise on the farm of Millwork and running in a southerly direction to its conflux with Garpel Burn. It is handed down by tradition that formerly an old woman who had lived convenient to this stream sold herself to the Devil hence the name." Ordnance Survey Name Book Entry, OS1/20/37/41
685. "St Patrick's Well: A spring that used to be resorted to a long time ago for the curing of all sorts of diseases and at which a pledge or rage was left. There are old persons still resident in Kirkpatrcik Durham who remember, in their youth, to see persons resorting to this well for the cure of diseases after the manner above mentioned" Ordnance Survey Name Book Entry, OS1/20/86/36.