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hmmm

I'm not sure really, I can't think of anything offhand that involves different people bringing stones from different areas. Often there's the implication that they're not local and have come from elsewhere (perhaps?) - when it's giants and the devil bringing them / throwing them from a long way off. But that's nothing you couldn't surmise / make up is it. I know I've spent a lot of time sifting out bits of folklore for tma but I'd be the first to admit it's probably got zero connection with prehistory.

then again my brain is like a sieve. Once I've copied it down my brain thinks 'ah, don't have to remember that any more - bye'. so I'll keep my eye out.

Rhiannon wrote:
I know I've spent a lot of time sifting out bits of folklore for tma but I'd be the first to admit it's probably got zero connection with prehistory.
Good attitude Rhiannon , we can never trust tha connection but sometimes there is a kernel that gives the clue . The Newgrange tale of putting "aeriel life" into Diarmid just might be a memory of the use of the the roof box .

Often there's the implication that they're not local and have come from elsewhere (perhaps?)...
Even walked there of their own accord :-) crossed the road for a midnight stroll, or wandered down to the water for a drink (it was believed that the Carnac stones went to drink in the Bay of St Colomban on Christmas Eve).

Perhaps such stories indicate a folk memory of stones being moved from one place to another (and sometimes washed for medicinal purposes?).

Often there's the implication that they're not local and have come from elsewhere (perhaps?)...
Even walked there of their own accord :-) crossed the road for a midnight stroll, or wandered down to the water for a drink (it was believed that the Carnac stones went to drink in the Bay of St Colomban on Christmas Eve).

Perhaps such stories indicate a folk memory of stones being moved from one place to another (and sometimes washed for medicinal purposes?).