[Stones] Preseli bluestones

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In a message dated 01/12/2006 14:11:55 GMT Standard Time,  
littlestone at supanet.com writes:


"The medieval historian Geoffrey of Monmouth told of a belief  in the healing 
power of Stonehenge's stones, brought by Arthur's magician,  Merlin, "from 
Ireland", where stones have long had magic properties.  Geoffrey's stories are 
ridiculed, but his folk memory might contain a grain of  truth. Could the 
appeal of the bluestones lie not in ancestor worship or  astronomical ritual but in 
the power these objects were thought to hold back  in Preseli?"* 
There's also  Layamon's poem, Brut, of 1215 describing  Stonehenge - 
 

The stones are great
And magic power they  have
Men that are sick
Fare to that stone
And they wash that  stone
And with that water bathe away their  sickness



I wish I could read the Scala Mundi
_http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1957926,00.html_ 
(http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1957926,00.html) 
There is mention of Merlin and Amfbery and Hibernia....
It would be neat if it talked about healing or  wells!
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