The rocking stone

"HOROSCOPE:
Today is a good time for making new friends. A good deed may have unforeseen consequences. Don't upset any druids. You will soon be going on a very strange journey. Your lucky food is small cucumbers. People pointing knives at you are probably up to no good. PS, we really mean it about the druids."
(Terry Pratchett - from The Light Fantastic)


Rocking stones (clach-bràth) are large stones that are so finely balanced that the application of just a small force causes them to rock. Sometimes known as a judgment stone, they mark locations where ancient open-air courts took place. The Clochoderick Stone's a rocking stone not far from where I live and legend has it that the Druids used it as a judgement stone. I went with Mummy and Daddy to see if I could make it rock. I examined it carefully, walked round its base and then chose my spot carefully and ... well ... nothing happened. Maybe it only works for Druids!


"Of course, like druids everywhere they believed in the essential unity of all life, the healing power of plants, the natural rhythm of the seasons and the burning alive of anyone who didn't approach all this in the right frame of mind..."
(Terry Pratchett - from The Light Fantastic)