Rollright Stones is located 28 km northwest of Oxford (UK). This place is famous for stones of an unusual shape, which are centuries old. Over the entire period of their existence, the bizarre blocks have overgrown with many legends and stories.
According to one of the legends, the Danish king, going on a campaign with an army, met a sorceress, who predicted to him that he would become the king of all England if, after taking seven large steps, he saw the village of Long Compton in the distance.
When the royal army surrounded it and tried to grab it, the ground suddenly rattled and began to heave, forming a huge hill. The sorceress uttered a spell and the king and his companions turned into stones, and the sorceress herself turned into a tree.
According to legend, if a flowering tree is cut down in this area, blood will flow from it instead of juice, and the Stone King will turn his head. Belief also says that a person who breaks off a piece of stone from here as a keepsake will surely have a misfortune.
Until the middle of the twentieth century, Rollright stones were considered a favorite place for witches' Sabbaths. The miraculous properties of the blocks themselves reached the 21st century. Even in the Middle Ages, women came to these stones at night to lean against them with their breasts and gain fertility.
The Rollright Stones mysticism can be traced back to more modern eyewitness accounts. In 1919, touching one of the stones, a certain Mrs. L. Chapman reported: "… my hand began to tremble violently, and I felt like something was pushing me away." And in 1980, another visitor saw “a luminous cloud that seemed to come out of the ground; it rose above the stones and then dissolved."
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British scientists carefully studied the stones and concluded that individual blocks really have weak electromagnetic radiation, which is recorded only by special devices. Also, ultrasounds not detected by the human ear were detected.
Researchers suggest that the Rollright Stones stone circle is an analogue of Stonehenge and dates back to the fourth millennium BC. Such structures were often built on the sites of tectonic faults, where magnetic or gravitational anomalies, as well as unexplained light phenomena, are not excluded.
In 2004, unknown vandals covered 70 Rollright Stones megaliths with paint. The Druidic cult branded this gruesome action and offered a thousand pounds reward for capturing the culprits.
The result of the vandals' actions was discovered on April 1. The representative of the Pagan Federation of England, Karin Attwood, said that, given the power of magic and the power of prayer of believers, the vandals must have felt the greatest discomfort.
According to legend, everyone who ever tried to damage the megaliths or move them from their place, were punished for this. So one farmer broke off a piece from one of the stones, and then, as he returned with it to his own cart, it turned out that the wheels were firmly rooted in the ground.
The young soldier broke off a second piece of stone to take back to India. Upon arrival in India, he died of typhus. Another farmer took one huge stone to connect two banks of a small stream nearby.
Two dozen people ate dragged this stone. Two of the drivers were killed. The stone was thrown in the form of a bridge across the river. Every morning, he mysteriously took off and lay down on one of the banks. The farmer after some time concluded that it was no longer worthwhile to tempt fate and it was time to return the stone to its place. One horse easily drove this block to the accumulation of stones.