Shamans and sorcerers have always considered stones to be living beings capable of storing information and accumulating destructive or healing energy. Many cult stones actually seem to be alive, because they are able to respond with evil to evil, severely punish their offenders and even move contrary to the laws of physics.
Ancient stones cannot be disturbed
Since ancient times, many peoples of the world have had a belief that the one who disturbed the ancient cult stones would incur innumerable disasters on himself and those around him. Amazingly, from time to time there are events that fully confirm the correctness of this so widespread "superstition".
In 1944, in connection with the widening of the road, it was decided to move the two-ton "Witch's Stone" from the crossroads to Scrapfaggot Green, in Essex, England. Boulder was next to a local pub, and the neighborhood clearly pissed him off. An "epidemic" of misfortunes began in the town, which, in the opinion of local residents, were clearly supernatural in nature.
At first, the church bells refused to obey the bell ringer and began to frighten the inhabitants with their completely unharmonious chime, then thirty sheep and two horses were found dead in the field, the veterinarian could not give a clear explanation of the cause of their death. Suddenly, scaffolding scattered around the building being repaired, and farmers found that chickens were trapped in the rabbits' cages, while their eared guests fled to local gardens.
The population of the town demanded that the authorities urgently return the stone to its place. Since a real panic had already begun among the residents, this demand was immediately fulfilled. Believe it or not, immediately after that, the peace and grace that are so characteristic of small English provincial settlements re-established in the town.
The famous Sin-Kamen of Pleshcheevo Lake once lay on a hill and was the altar plate of the sanctuary. As the newly converted Christians continued to walk and worship this stone, they decided to throw it down from the top. According to legend, as soon as the cult stone lost its place of honor, a very strong fire broke out in the nearby town of Kleshchine.
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The deacon of the Semyonov Church Anufriy volunteered to bury the "demonic" stone, he dug a deep hole, pushed a boulder into it and filled it with earth. Immediately after this titanic work, the big man Anufriy fell down with a strong fever, the chronicle does not report whether he survived. A few years later, the stone got out of the ground and again appeared on the surface …
After a century and a half, they decided to hide the "ill-fated" stone in the foundation of the church under construction in Pereslavl. In winter, a boulder was taken on a sleigh across the frozen Pleshcheevo Lake, the sleigh fell through the ice and the stone sank. Neither the authorities nor the priests grieved about the stone, and in the meantime he did not even think to stay at the bottom. After a while, local fishermen noticed that the boulder was slowly but surely moving towards the shore. Almost 5 km in 50 years overcame Sin-Kamen, but still got to the shore! Now he is a local landmark, no one bothers him, and he does not offend anyone.
When the goddess Manua-Loa is angry
If you ever find yourself near the Hawaiian volcano Mauna Loa, do not try to take pebbles from its slopes as a souvenir. Locals have long believed that such "souvenirs" bring misfortune, because stones stolen from Pele, the goddess of Mauna Loa, simply cannot act otherwise.
The fact that stones taken from a volcano can in fact become a catalyst for all sorts of misfortunes was convinced by an American family, which in 1977, during a tourist trip, despite warnings, saving on local souvenirs, collected volcanic stones instead.
Immediately after returning home, a series of very unpleasant events began in the family of Ralph Loffert, vice president of an airline from Buffalo (New York, USA). First, one of the sons, Todd, frightened the whole family with an attack of appendicitis, then he underwent surgery on the knee joint and, in addition, broke his wrist. Mark, another son, broke his arm and sprained his ankle. Even little Dan's eye was so inflamed that he had not only to be treated, but also to wear glasses. The only girl in the family, Rebecca, fell unsuccessfully and knocked out two of her front teeth.
Frightened parents, who also did not go well at work and in their personal lives, decided to urgently get rid of the damned stones. In mid-1978, Ralph sent stones to Hawaii to a local friend and asked him to put them at the foot of the volcano.
Despite the fact that the parcel reached and Ralph's request was fulfilled, the previous serene days did not return to the family, the series of misfortunes continued. Dan broke his arm, Mark got crutches, injuring his knee, and poor Rebecca lost three more teeth. Todd also got it: he again broke his wrist and injured his elbow.
Ralph's wife lost sleep, and Loffert himself did not even know what to think. It all came to light unexpectedly when, frightened by misfortune, Mark admitted that he had hidden three stones. As soon as these stones were sent, peace immediately reigned in the family.
One could explain this example with the Loffert family only by a series of random coincidences, but many suffered from the stones "stolen" from Manua Loa.
For example, the Raymond family from Ontario (Canada) also borrowed several stones from a Hawaiian volcano. Here is what Allison Raymond told about the consequences of this rash act: “My husband died in a head-on collision while driving, my mother died of cancer. My youngest son went to the hospital with inflammation of the pancreas, and he also broke his leg. My daughter's marriage almost collapsed, and it was only when I mailed the stones back that our misfortunes stopped."
American Nick Morris from Texas in 1979 brought only one pebble from the volcano, and he gave half of it to a friend. However, his remaining half was more than enough for him. First, a hurricane wind near his house severely damaged the roof, then lightning struck his antenna and half of the household appliances went out of order.
No sooner had Morris' suddenly ill wife recovered than he himself broke his thigh when he was fighting a burglar who had sneaked into the house. To all these misfortunes, his granddaughter, falling out of the blue, broke her arm in two places.
The final decision to return the stone came to Morris after his friend returned the half he had been given. For a year and a couple of months, his friend managed to crash four cars and he himself was barely intact. Only with the sending of the stone to the Morris family did everything work out.
The fact that the stones from Mauna Loa cause a lot of trouble for those who dare to offend the goddess Pele is also evidenced by the fact that at the end of the 20th century, in just one day, the employees of the Hawaiian Volcanic Reserve received … 40 parcels of stones. They were returned by tourists, who had experienced the negative power of such souvenirs to the full.
Not only stones from Mauna Loa can bring misfortune, it is dangerous to take stones from other places of worship. Ayers Rock is located in the north of Australia. It is the largest natural monolith in the world, a huge sandstone rock 348 m high and about 3 km long.
For Australian aborigines, this rock is a sacred place, numerous pilgrims flock to Ayers from all over the continent. This unusual natural site is not ignored by tourists either.
Often they take pebbles at the foot of the Ayers as souvenirs, or even strive to beat off a more massive piece right from the rock as a souvenir.
Although Aboriginal people consider it sacrilege, souvenir lovers rarely pay attention to their protests. If tourists manage to take away the pieces of the Cheops pyramid, then what can we say about some kind of miraculous huge rock: no matter how you take it, it won't lose it!
Such a pernicious passion for forbidden souvenirs, contempt for other people's faith and customs, it seems, cost dearly for lovers of exoticism. Since the 90s of the twentieth century, Ayers Rock keepers regularly receive parcels in which tourists return the stones they once took. Some even bring the stones in person. All unanimously say that the stones from the sacred rock brought them only misfortune. Some of the tourists fell ill, others went broke, and others lost loved ones …
It is dangerous not only to take stones from places of worship, but also to simply destroy them or put some kind of inscriptions on them. Alef Bats told about a very revealing case in his article. One student in love, being inside the temple, destroyed during the war, scribbled a nail on one of its stones a "formula" more typical for adolescence - "Faith + Andrey = Eternal love."
What happened next? Very sad events … Andrei, with whom the girl was in love, hanged himself in her apartment in a fit of depressive psychosis, Vera herself twice tried to commit suicide, and as a result remained disabled, her personal life did not work out …
Death Valley Living Stones
Death Valley in California (USA) is famous for the fact that it is here that stones come to life. On the bottom of the dried-up Lake Restrek Playa, the stones travel quite significant distances, and leave behind them clear traces of their movement in the form of shallow furrows. Moreover, both small stones and boulders weighing half a ton are moving.
Of course, none of the scientists believes in any mysticism, and even more so in the fact that stones are living beings. Researchers are looking for a scientific explanation of the phenomenon. Geologists from the California Institute of Technology Robert Sharp and Dwight Carey in the 60s and 70s of the last century, after a long study, came to the conclusion that the stones are moved by strong winds when the bottom of the lake becomes very slippery after rains.
However, in 1995 their conclusions were refuted by another American geologist John Reid. According to him, together with the students, he ended up in Death Valley just at the time when the ideal weather conditions were formed for the movement of stones, but they did not crawl a single millimeter. In turn, Reid suggested that stones can move when covered with a crust of ice, which greatly reduces their friction on the surface and thus facilitates movement.
At the moment, none of the scientists has been able to accurately describe the mechanism of movement of stones in the Valley of Death and to prove their hypothesis. Well, if we think about Sin-Kamen, then scientists will have to break their heads even more … How could a 12-ton boulder travel along the bottom of the lake to such a distance, when, logically speaking, it should immediately get bogged down in a muddy bottom and forever remain on place ?! Miracles, and more!
Many, very many, it is impossible to believe that stones can be living beings. It is difficult to believe even that they can somehow influence people, and that all these talisman stones or healing stones are not just fictions invented by astrologers and jewelers. However, as for the latter, you still have to believe it! Using the Kirlian effect, Russian scientists have convincingly proved that stones can influence the energy of the human body and even heal us from diseases.