At a holy well in the south, dedicated to St. Augustine, the friars
began to build a convent. And during all the hours of work bells were
heard ringing sweetly and voices singing; but one day a woman came and
washed her feet in the water of the well, and thereupon all the bells
ceased and the singing stopped, and the work could not go on. So the
friars chose another site, and they drew a circle round it, within
which no woman was to set her foot; and after this the bells began to
ring again and the voices sang, and the work went on safely till the
convent was completed in the name of God and St. Augustine; but no
woman during all that time ever set foot on the holy ground.