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The Holed Stone
Through the stone three times, then against the sun.
See it clearly
- What's there
- Holed stone between two upright stones
- Legend from
- 19th-century record
- Tone
- Curious
A stone with a hole through it. Crawl through, they said, and you'll be cured.
Mên-an-Tol, the holed stone, is a small group of granite stones on a furzy down near the Madron to Morvah road: a round stone with a hole through the middle, between two uprights. It is also known as the Crick Stone. Robert Hunt recorded that sick children were passed naked through the hole three times and drawn over the grass against the sun to cure them, and that adults with back trouble crawled through too. Two brass pins laid crossed on the top of the stone would answer any question by moving. Other tellings make it a protecting stone against fairy changelings.