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La Roque au Tonnerre.-On the same Fief and Bouvee, had a 

 name which would seem to connect it with the cult of the Sun God. 



La Roque Fendue, the Cleft Rock.— On the same Extente of 

 1534, on La Bouvee Thomas Henry, has rather a more doubtful 

 name and may have been a natural rock. 



Le Trepied, or La Pouquelaye du Mont Chichon (now 

 Le Mont Chinchon). — This dolmen stands on the top of the hill at 

 the end of the point of Le Catioroc. In the " Extente des Onze 

 Bbuvees Nord Est," 1534, we find it called " La Pouquelee." " La 

 Bouvee es hers Collas de Garis. Item Simion de Guaris au Mont 

 Chichon au nort voest de la pouquelee, 1 v. 7 p." In all later 

 Livres de Perchages of this fief the dolmen is invariably called ct Le 

 Trepied." It was the most famous of all our dolmens in old legends, 

 and in the trials for witchcraft held under Bailiff Amias de Car- 

 teret in the beginning of the seventeenth century it was noted as the 

 midnight haunt of our witches and wizards. Here one of the chief 

 "Sabbats " of the island was held each Friday night, when, accord- 

 ing to the confessions of the witches, the devil, in the form of a 

 black goat, called " Baal Berith," or Cf Barberie," sat on the centre 

 capstone of the dolmen, while the witches, warlocks and fairies 

 danced around in worship, led in their revels by the terrible 

 Heroguiazes, shouting in chorus as they danced : — 

 Que, hou hou, 

 Marie Lihou, 

 in mockery of the Blessed Virgin, whose shrine of Notre Dame de 

 Lihou was on the little islet off the point of L'Eree.(l) 



Even fifty years ago no respectable old lady of the neighbour- 

 hood of La Perelle would go near the Catioroc on a Friday after 

 nightfall. 



The dolmen of Le Trepied was excavated by Mr. F. C. Lukis 

 in 1839-40, and the vases and other objects found in it are in the 

 Lukis Museum. (64.) 



The district of L'Eree-Catioroc was probably one of the 

 strongholds of paganism in the island. Anyway our fore- 

 fathers seem to have been at great pains in their endeavours 

 to Christianise it and erected no less than two chapels and 

 three crosses around it. There was first to the West the 

 church and priory of Notre Dame de Lihou on the little islet 

 of Lihou to the west of L'Eree Point, then the " Chapelle 

 Dom Hue," a small open chapel-shrine, on the little islet 

 still called u Dom Hue" to the north of "La Breche de 

 l'Angulaire." A cross, "La Croix de Martin," stood on the 

 edge of the beach opposite the chapel at "La Breche de 

 l'Angulaire." Another cross, "La Croix de Lihou," stood 

 at the side of the road on the highest point of the hill to the 

 West of the dolmen of Le Creux es Fai'es, and a third, " La 

 Croix," was situated at Les Adams, a short distance to the 

 South of "La Longue Roque," de Claire Mare. 



La Longue Pierre 3 another menhir, was situated near Le Mont 

 Varouf on the Fief of Jean du Gaillard. In the "Extente'' of this 

 Fief in 1603 we find the following entries : cc Les hers Marguerite 

 Le Mesurier fille Pierre en leur courtil de la Longue Pierre, 6 v. 

 4 p." Then immediately following : cc Pierre de Garis a cause de 

 sa mere fille de Jean Mancel en sa pieche de terre au Mont Varouf. " 



(65.) 

 (1) Folk Lore, p. 121-3. D 



