Even stones have gender..male and female. The female forms are sculpted out of female stones. Female stones are comparatively softer than the male stones and so its comparatively easy to give form and shape to it. Female stones when struck with a hammer gives a shrill, shriek, thin sound and that's how its identified also.
'As steady as a rock' would have meant nothing to the ancient Celts, in whose world rocks and boulders were living, growing, locomotive creatures, some endowed with the homing instincts of a carrier pigeon, others providing vehicles on sea or in air for travelling Druid Magi, and others given to prophetic utterances.
"This rock is one of a tribe that live and move on a three-mile-long dry lake bed called the Racetrack Playa in Death Valley, California. Rocks varying from small pebbles to half-ton boulders, move in different directions, and th
...ey slide rather than roll........................There are countless traditions of stones which have a decided preference for one particular spot and will make their own way back there if removed. Among examples claimed is the King's Stone, one of a megalithic group, the Rollright Stones in Oxfordshire, which are also said to take themselves off for a drink at the local brook on a certain day each year.
Such tales are common, as also is the related class of incidents where stones, assembled for building a church, have moved from the site chosen to another spot, where the church had eventually to be built.
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