448 The Amorpholithic Monuments of Brittany. [O&ober, 
influence was in the ascendant, to saints and demons. We 
have classical authority for the popular belief that ‘there 
were giants in those days,” the Greeks and Romans giving 
to their god-like heroes supernatural strength. For instance, 
take the boulder which Turnus in his last despair hurls at 
/Eneas— 
‘‘ He said no more, but looking round 
A mighty stone espied, 
A mighty stone, time-worn and grey, 
Which haply on the champaign lay, 
Set there erewhile the land to bound, 
And strifes of law decide: 
Scarce twelve strong men of later mould 
That weight would on their necks uphold 
To-day’s degenerate sons: 
He caught it up, and at his foe 
Discharged it, rising to the throw, 
And straining as he runs.” 
‘Nec plura effatus, saxum circumspicit ingens 
Saxum antiquum, ingens, campo quod forte jacebat, 
Limes agro positus, litem ut discerneret arvis ; 
Vix illud leéti bis sex cervice subirent 
Qualia nunc hominum producit corpora tellus ; 
Ille manu raptum trepida torquebat in hostem, 
Altior insurgens et cursu concitus heros.” 
VirRGIL, ‘‘Aineidos,” lib. xii., 896 to goz. 
In like manner the monkish legends represent the devil 
throwing stones at some saint, and the saint replying with 
interest, causing the demon to become lame by some menhir 
dropped on his toe, &c. 
It is not long since the Wiltshire shepherd would scarcely 
pass near Stonehenge at eventide for fear of surprising the 
unholy orgies of the giants, and believed in the possibility 
of becoming the victim of an enchanted pixy-ring. Indeed, 
the tradition is still prevalent that the stones of Stonehenge 
were transported by miraculous agency from afar. Geraldus 
Cambrensis, A.D. 1187, gravely affirms that Stonehenge was 
removed from a mountain in Ireland to Salisbury Plain by 
the magician Merlin. In Brittany accordingly we find the 
neighbourhood of the dolmen-mounds, the peulvans, and 
avenues to be haunted either by the durv or dwarf, and the 
Karrigwen (Korrigan or Korils), the mischievous elves or 
the Teuz, the benevolent fairies. Mr. John Lukis mentions 
that one day he lately visited a fine cromlech on Mr. Bruce 
Pryce’s property, near Cardiff, in Wales; on asking some 
children who were playing about the name of the spot, 
they at once replied ‘‘ Castle Korrig,” and was particularly 
struck with the Celtic name of the Breton fairy as applied to 
a cromlech in Wales. Similarly in Ireland, the mighty 
Raths and Cathairs are frequented by ‘“‘ the good people,” 
