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Sgarasta (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Folklore

On the top of a high stone in Scaristavor parks, the raven will drink its fill of men's blood [..]

This stone is about ten ft. high, and is one of the three fragments into which a larger stone, used by an old woman of former days as a hammer to knock limpets off the rocks (ord bhairneach) was broken. Of the other two, one is in Uigh an du tuath, and one in Tarnsa Islet. At a spot from which these three fragments can be seen, there is hidden an urn of silver and an urn of gold (croggan oir's cr. airgid). It is easy to find a place whence one can see two, but when about to see the third, one of the first two disappears. Five or six yards make all the difference. A herdsman once found the spot, but when digging for the treasure he happened to see a heifer that had fallen on its back in a stream. He ran to its rescue, and never could find the place again.
From p274 of 'Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland' by John Gregorson Campbell (1900).
http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924029909896#page/n297
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18th April 2011ce

Callanish (Standing Stones) — Images (click to view fullsize)

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18th March 2011ce

Ceann Hulavig (Stone Circle) — Images

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6th March 2011ce

Callanish (Standing Stones) — Images

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6th February 2011ce

Bernera Bridge Circle (Stone Circle) — Images

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23rd January 2011ce

Airigh nam Bidearan (Stone Row / Alignment) — Images

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17th January 2011ce

Barpa Langass (Chambered Cairn) — Images

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15th January 2011ce

Cnoc Fillibhear Bheag (Stone Circle) — Images

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15th January 2011ce
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