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Stones Forum >> Moving stones and megaliths and their myths
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Moving stones and megaliths and their myths |
Anonymous
User not Registered |  Posted 27-01-2005 at 19:25
I'm interested in myth and folklore that describes some stones and megaliths moving from location to location under their own power, can change into people and vice versa. I know of only a few - one in my area of Scotland but I know there must be more elsewhere in the world - and would be interested to hear from anyone who can give me names of and stories about such stones, or indeed point me in the diretion of where I can find out more for myself.
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Harry
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templar
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| Posted 28-01-2005 at 11:28
The question here is "where to start". There are tons of stories like this. So here's one to get you started. URL=http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=1470]St Lythans[/URL]
These stories often involve stones going for a drink in a local river.
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Jimit
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| Posted 28-01-2005 at 11:43
Another good place to try is http://www.themodernantiquarian.com a sister site to this.Try looking at the folklore postings by Rhiannon who seems to be the expert. Look at the postings for the Rollrights and the Swindon Stone at Avebury. Good luck there are hundreds of legends. 
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Anonymous
User not Registered | Posted 28-01-2005 at 12:36
Thanks for the links. The stone that started this for me is called Caillich Bheir which is in Argyll, Scotland. It is said to also take the form of an old woman and can transport itself from hilltop to hilltop and is also associated with deluges. I'm looking for info on stones with similar properties.
Harry
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| Posted 28-01-2005 at 16:01
There are very many such stories and I have often thought it would be great to collect them. Loads about people being turned to stone for dancing on Sundays, the Whispering Knights at Rollright are said to stroll down to the river for a drink. Stories about stones being brought downhill to be used for church building and then returning uphill overnight (Beauchamp Roding) suggest Christian/Pagan conflict. Good luck if you can discover then all - ther's a book in it, I'm sure.
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|  Posted 29-01-2005 at 00:03
Hi Harry
I've got an old book by Janet and Colin Bord, called 'The Secret Country', containing many stories about old folklore and stones, etc. My copy is 1978 version. You might be able to pick up a second-hand copy like I did.
Angie
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| Posted 29-01-2005 at 10:46
Carreg Leidr Standing Stone is one of these at SH446843; cheers, Tim.
Visited Saturday 23rd September 2000
SWW Mynydd Bodafon. I first attempted to visit this stone in June 1999, but despite ¼ hour searching, with assistance of a 1:50000 map, I could not find it. Returning in late September 2000 with autumn beginning to bite well, the hedges and foliage were considerably less obfuscating than at the height of summer. To find it, I highly recommend using a 1:25000 map (Explorer 263); just up the road from Clorach-Bach, the menhir is behind a hedge and fence, up a steep embankment. The first kink in the road heading northwest is when to look right; the stone should be visible peeking through the undergrowth, overlooking the road. The fence around the field, at the time of visiting, was incomplete in places, giving easy access, despite the very steep embankment.
The style of the stone reminded me very much of some at Stanton Drew, and its red colour brought to mind the lovely ochre of the Knap Down standing stone in Devon.
Page 21 of Rumours and Oddities from North Wales by Meirion Hughes and Wayne Evans, speaks of folklore concerning this stone. Two of the islands saints would meet near here; on one occasion, a man stole a Bible from a local church and given the holy location, he was turned into stone. Furthermore, the stone is alleged to leap from the ground and run thrice around the field at midnight on Christmas Eve.
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| Posted 03-02-2005 at 20:54
Any of the Chris Barber books Mysterious...Britain,Country etc are a good place to start for folklore. But more importantly go to Neolithic/Bronze Age sites. If you approach the site in the way it was intended it vanishes and then reappears as if by magic. These people used the folds of the ground in an artistic way,unlike our architects.
Does this sound like stones moving?
Hope you don't think I'm being facetious but when you've seen these works of art in the way they were intended,they blow your mind.
Keep looking
Sem
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