Merry Maidens Stone Circle Cornwall
The Merry Maidens are also called Dawn's Men. This name has nothing to do with sunrise: it is a corruption of Dans Maen, or Stone Dance in Cornish: a story of nineteen maidens dancing on a Sunday who were transformed into stones. The pipers that had played for them were petrified too
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