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The ancient Celts placed great faith in the healing
powers of water. Water was seen as a cure for all manner of ailments,
from insanity to infertility. Sometimes the water had to be consumed,
sometimes it was applied externally, and for certain conditions
the patient had to be immersed from head to toe and then have
a therapeutic sleep alongside the water.
Druid hospitals - centres of scholarship as well
as for medicine - were always located by a stream or river, the
water a constant source of both spiritual inspiration and scientific
study.
Christianity, when it reached the Highlands, supplanted
many of the local beliefs. The waters at Aberlour, for so long
the subject of pagan worship, were blessed by the missionary St
Drostan. A new spirit replaced the old spirits.
Now that same magically pure spring water
is at the heart of a different spirit world. Aberlour Single Malt.
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