40 LIST OF DOLMENS, MENHIRS, ETC. 



Le Petit Bon-Homme Andriou.— A natural pillar shaped 

 rock, very like a menhir, which stands on one of " Les Tas de Pois 

 d' Anion V or " Pea Stacks ' at St. Martin's Point, was also an object 

 of veneration even within the last twenty years, when it was still 

 the custom for the fishermen to drop their ensign and to make an 

 offering of food or a libation of wine or cider to it at the beginning 

 of the fishing season ; or, if an old garment past use chanced to be 

 in the boat, this was also cast into the sea to bring " good luck " 

 to their fishing. "Andriou tape tout" (which may be translated 

 "Andriou, watch all" or "over all") was formerly an old "dicton" 

 among the children of the neighbourhood. (1) (28.) 



The Devi 9 'S Cflaw 5 at Jerbourg, is a large piece of white quartz 

 with a black splash right across it, which stands on the right hand 

 side of the road leading from the Town to Doyle's Column at the 

 head of the second vallum, or dyke, in the direction of Petit Port. 

 This stone was the termination of the bounds at Jerbourg which were 

 beaten by the " Chevauchee de St. Michel." According to a legend 

 the Devil, disguised as a beautiful maiden, carried off Duke Richard 

 of Normandy in a boat from near Granville and bore him away to a 

 rock in the sea near Guernsey, where he was afterwards found. (2) 

 The Devil is then supposed to have anchored at Le Petit Port, leapt 

 up the cliff and landed on the stone near where Doyle's Column now 

 stands at Jerbourg, and where the imprint of his claws is still seen. 



(29.) 



Dog Of Death.— The old legend of the "Dog of Death" was 

 attached to three localities at St. Martin's. " La Bete de la Devise," 

 a black dog, haunted " La Rue de la Bete," an old road now incor- 

 porated in the grounds, of Sausmarez Manor. The legend may have 

 been associated with " Les Blanches Pierres," which stood at no 

 great distance from this road. " La Bete de la Rue Maze," haunted 

 the road of this name situated to the west of " La Carrefour au 

 Lievre " and it may have been connected with the megalithic remains 

 in the neighbourhood of St. Martin's Church. "La Biche" — a 

 goat — frequented " Le Coin de la Biche" in the lane between "La 

 Fosse " and " La Villette " as well as the cross lanes from the " Carre- 

 four David" to "Les Profonds Camps. "(3) 



Holy Wells. — These were "La Fontaine des Navets," situated on 

 the right hand side of the cliff above Saints Bay in the little lane 

 opposite Rose Farm. There are two wells in this lane, the most 

 southerly being the sacred one. " La Fontaine de la Belleuse" lies 

 just east of the church below the farm house now belonging to Mr. 

 Tardif. This again is a double fountain, of which the southern one 

 is the "wishing" well. 



FOREST. 



The whole of the Forest Parish lies on the Fief du Roi, 

 but unfortunately I have been unable to find any " Livre de 

 Perchage" of the fief of earlier date than 1877, when already 

 many of the old place names had been modernised. It is 

 curious to note that though there were at least three menhirs 

 in the parish in former days, so far in the Livres de Per- 

 chage, I have been unable to trace a single dolmen, the 

 typical names of Pouquelaye and Trepied being conspicuous 

 by their absence. 



(1) Folk Lore, pp. 143-148. 



(2) Folk Lore, p. 157. Cf. La Chronique de Normandie, printed at Rouen in 

 1576. Fol. 4, sur Van 997. 



3) Diet. Franco-Norm., p. 161. Folk Lore, p, 236. J 



