Wills Prehistoric Road Trip Part 7 The Merry Maidens

[@garygag739]

Hello Will I subscribed to your channel a while back now which I must tell you I absolutely love it. It is my favourite channel on KZbin right now. But this is the first time I have been brave enough to leave a comment but I am having so much fun joining you on this fantastic journey you are sharing with us all you have really lifted me from the dark sad world that I have spent much time in the past. I look forward to your daily uploads you really have put the light back in my world and I can't thank you enough may all your dreams and wishes come true. So till next time my friend take care and stay safe. 👣👣👍

[@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival]

Gary GAG you comment away Gary and thank you I’m so glad to hear that I am lifting your spirits a bit x

[@wendyrual7179]

You have a wonderful way with mother earth.....to tell the stones your name & your life is beautiful 💚 2:17 ..I think that's exactly how the stones would sound if you could hear them. Thanks Will..stay safe 🤗💕

[@joshuastacey5292]

Beautiful site

[@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival]

It really is!

[@johnvorus6165]

Amazing story, thank you for sharing

[@KernowekTim]

Bloody lovely down by those stones isn't it Will. Proper Kernow, mate.... Look over the hedges and you will find more standing stones, look at the hedges, and you will see yet more that have been robbed to fill cattle gaps. I hope that you do have time to visit Truro Museum, and see the Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze age......'stuff' there. As you are into 'stones' it will probably give you much enjoyment.. For a proper view, get yourself up on the summit of Carn- Brea Hill at Redruth. That hill has huge Stone Age History, and at first light, the view is proper. That's the view of ancient man in Kernow in those parts!

[@gramursowanfaborden5820]

Trencrom is like that, too.

[@soulpaua2097]

Love the videos mate, regards from New Zealand!

[@gramursowanfaborden5820]

the "bad stone" was part of an incomplete medeaval story about how the merry maidens came to be. it was harvest time during what is known as "crying the neck", where the last handful of crop from a harvest (normally grain) is held aloft by the person who harvested it in celebration (more info here: www.helstonhistory.co.uk/old-customs/crying-the-neck/). the story goes that the men working the field anticipated this would happen and brought pipe flutes with them, and after crying the neck, they started to play and all the women (maidens) began to dance in a big circle. unfortunately for them, it was during the sabbath and dancing was prohibited. the strike of St Buryan's bell tower made the pipers realise what they were doing, so they legged it, leaving the maidens to dance, one was faster than the other and got into the next field, the other only made it to the hedge, as he did so the bell rang out again and all of them, at once, turned to stone. of course we know that the circle is much older than that, but, it is all local history and must be preserved all the same.

[@JimBagby74]

I love the old medieval legends. Quite a lot of dancing and sporting on the Sabbath apparently... Stanton Drew, Hurlers, Nine Ladies, etc.

[@stevenolan7972]

I wonder what the stars would look like from the center of the circle looking straight up?

[@anvilbrunner.2013]

Cornwall is a lot like Ireland in appearance.

[@KernowekTim]

It is in places very much like down around Tormore and Knockeens. Sadly, for myself and many of my generation, it has been thoroughly Anglised since the early 60's. At one time, we only heard Cornish accents, our teachers were Cornish, Welsh, and Rep Irish, and the Duchy really was Onan hag Oll. times change, but the stones bear witness to our past. Now only our rivers run free.

[@anvilbrunner.2013]

@@KernowekTim Straw dogs 1971 springs to mind.

[@gramursowanfaborden5820]

appearance, culture, weather, bitter disdain of the English.

[@JimBagby74]

Dancing on the Sabbath??!! How very dare they...

[@redbeard8834]

Mammoths would be tied to it so they couldn't run off