Long Meg & Her Daughters 20
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StoneGloves wrote:
Isn't there another common myth attached to the Long Meg stone circle? Which is that they're impossible to count reliably.
Yes, that's a fairly common circle myth, Long Meg also has a standard "petrified women" myth as well. Less standard is the legend that Meg will bleed real blood if a piece is chipped off her, and even rarer, that violent storms and lightning will follow any attempt to disturb the stones.

A real pity that last one was not real, and true for all megalithic monuments!

M&K

Megalithics wrote:
StoneGloves wrote:
Isn't there another common myth attached to the Long Meg stone circle? Which is that they're impossible to count reliably.
Yes, that's a fairly common circle myth, Long Meg also has a standard "petrified women" myth as well. Less standard is the legend that Meg will bleed real blood if a piece is chipped off her, and even rarer, that violent storms and lightning will follow any attempt to disturb the stones.

A real pity that last one was not real, and true for all megalithic monuments!

M&K

well not too far off according to J Sullivan in "Cumberland and Westmoreland ancient and modern " (1857) , " About 1800 Colonel Lacy attempted to move stones by blasting .The resulting storm was said to be so terrible that the workmen fled for their lives " quoited in an Antiquity article by Tom Clare and Graeme Soffe .