Not to be confused, of course, with the well-known island mount of the same name.
A Scottish sixteenth-century magical verse was chanted over such a stone:
“I knock this rag wpone this stone,
And ask the divell for rain thereon.”
The writer’s experience is that unlettered British folk often possess much better information concerning the antiquities of a district than its ‘educated’ inhabitants. If this information is not scientific it is full and displays deep personal interest.
Collectionneur breton, t. iii, p.55.