page_title: Llandegla
section_title: Local customs and traditions
hierarchical_section_title: Llandegla / Local customs and traditions
caption_attribution_description: English: St. Tecla's Well, Llandegla, Wales, United Kingdom
context_page_description: Llandegla or Llandegla-yn-Iâl is a village and community in the county of Denbighshire in Wales. In the 2011 census, the community had a population of 567.
context_section_description: Pennant recorded an odd tradition connected with St Tecla's Well, a spring in a field close to the church. Sufferers of what were known as Clwyf Tecla, "St Tecla's disease", washed themselves in the well after sunset and walked round it three times, leaving an offering of fourpence, afterwards spending the night in the church.
  The nineteenth-century folklorist Elias Owen recorded a tale about a "wicked Ghost" which haunted the rectory at Llandegla and was eventually exorcised by a man named Griffiths from Graianrhyd. The spirit was said to have been buried in a box under a large stone in the River Alyn close to Llandegla's bridge.
  The village has an annual Summer Fate festival, which involves vegetable growing, and artwork competitions, as well sports races for the local children.
caption: St. Tecla's well. Its use was discouraged by the church after the 19th century
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