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The Devil's Wedding
Never dance with a stranger after midnight on a Saturday.
See it clearly
- What's there
- Three stone circles and a three-stone cove
- Legend from
- Aubrey, 1664
- Tone
- Eerie
Midnight on Saturday. The fiddler put down his bow, and a stranger picked it up.
Stanton Drew has three stone circles, the Great Circle among the largest in Britain, with a separate cove of three standing stones in the village. Local tradition says the stones are a wedding party. The guests danced on through Saturday night, and when the fiddler stopped at midnight, a stranger took up the bow and played on into Sunday. He was the Devil, and at dawn every dancer was turned to stone. John Aubrey recorded the name 'The Wedding' in 1664. Outlying stones are still called the Bride, the Parson and the Fiddler's companions.