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A different telling of Rhiannon's tale "Many years ago some of the stones of Mains of Hatton Circle, Auchterless, were removed to form gateposts, but the spirits, it is said, resented human interference with the circle, and it was only with great trouble that horses could ever be induced to pass through the gate. So little was the farmer prepared to encounter the spiritual enmity thus clearly indicated, that he decided to replace, on their original site, the stones which had been taken away; but it was remarked that while two horses with difficulty dragged each stone downhill to the gate, one only found it easy work to pull a stone uphill from the gate to the circle". Source Folklore of the Aberdeen Stone Circles and Standing Stones by James Ritchie Proceedings of The Society of Antquities of Scotland. Vol LX.20 May 10 1926

Posted by fitzcoraldo 15th October 2004ce

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