In Scottish custom, Unspoken Water was water believed to have healing properties when collected "from under a bridge, over which the living pass and the dead are carried, brought in the dawn or twilight to the house of a sick person, without the bearer’s speaking, either in going or returning". According to The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 12, No.
In Scottish custom, Unspoken Water was water believed to have healing properties when collected "from under a bridge, over which the living pass and the dead are carried, brought in the dawn or twilight to the house of a sick person, without the bearer’s speaking, either in going or returning". According to The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 12, No.
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