In the book ‘Ghosts and Witches of the Cotswolds’ J A Brooks tells how the Stones are supposed to go down to the stream to drink on New Year’s Eve. There was no evidence of this the next day when I visited (01/01/2005ce) but an offering of Holly, Ivy and Misletoe had been made to one of the Stones.
J Harvey Bloom’s book Folk Lore, Old Customs and Superstitions in Shakespeare’s Land recalls how a farmer would shut his gates around the stones and would find them open the next day, even if fastened by padlocks and chains. He also tells of how a farmer tried to move a stone down the hill and how his team of horses became terrified and could only move it a few yards. It only took one horse, however, to pull the stone back up the hill.