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This stone is called Mên-an-Tol, ("holed stone" in the Cornish language). It is located on the moors north of Madron, in Cornwall, England.
It has the reputation of curing and invigorating people who pass through it.
There are countless stone sites, holy wells, and earthworks worth visiting all over the world. Many have the reputation for healing. All have a powerful and significant presence.
A bit more about Mên-an-Tol:
The Mên-an-Tol monument consists of four stones: one fallen, two uprights and between these a circular one, 1.3m (4ft 6in) in diameter, pierced by a hole that occupies about half its size. An old plan of Mên-an-Tol shows that originally the three main stones stood in a triangle, which makes certain astroarchaeological claims for it difficult to support. They could be the remains of a Neolithic tomb, because holed stones have been found acting as entrances into burial chambers. Its age in uncertain but it is usually assigned to the Bronze Age, between 3000-4000 years ago. Holed stones are found in many parts of British Isles as well as in other countries of the world and together with holy wells they have retained the ideas and customs associated with them more tenaciously than any other type of ancient sites. Beliefs connected with them are remarkably similar from the Orkneys to the far west of Cornwall. Traditional rituals at Mên-an-Tol (centuries ago known also as Devil's Eye) involved passing naked children three times through the holed stone and then drawing them along the grass three times in an easterly direction. This was thought to cure scrofula (a form of tuberculosis) and rickets. Adults seeking relief from rheumatism, spine troubles or ague were advised to crawl through the hole nine times against the sun. The holed stone also had prophetic qualities and, according to nineteenth-century folklorist Robert Hunt: If two brass pins are carefully laid across each other on the top edge of the stone, any question put to the rock will be answered by the pins acquiring, through some unknown agency, a peculiar motion.
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