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but they are remarkable in their way, and the only place in 

 Guernsey, where any approach to these may be found is in 

 the grass path at the Catioroc leading from the old watch- 

 house to the T'repied Dolmen. The stones there are, how- 

 ever, much smaller and are mostly prone. A photograph cf 

 a typical piece of the wall is shown on the opposite page. 

 On the plateau also were noted stones split by wedges in 

 the modern fashion to form gate-posts probably, which gave 

 one furiously to think why this should have taken place at 

 the highest part of the island and also what gates were they 

 to form part of. There does not seem to be any trace of 

 Jethou being occupied by more than one family at a time, 

 and the land generally is too poor to justify any expendi- 

 ture of time to divide it into fields. 



Verily, there are many unexplained points in Jethou, and 

 ones which would repay a prolonged and close examination. 



S. Carey Curtis, 

 Hon. Sec. Antiquarian Section. 



Report of the Folklore Section. 



The most important contribution to our Folklore records 

 in 1922, has, undoubtedly, been the appearance of Colonel 

 de Guerin's " List of Dolmens, Menhirs, Sacred Rocks, etc." 

 We are now beginning to realize that Folklore is not a mere 

 collection of miscellaneous, perhaps childish, superstitions, 

 but a scientific record of the li folk memory y) of the 

 people; a memory which often extends far behind the 

 Christian Era, even into the Stone Age. It marks the transi- 

 tion from the earlier cycle of gods to that of fairies and 

 demons, who, though partly supernatural in their prowess, 

 are entirely human in their impulses. Therefore, not only 

 has Colonel de Guerin classified our " Stone Age " remains 

 — the monuments erected by Neolithic man — but he has 

 tabulated the legends, traditions, and beliefs associated with 

 them, and thus has provided an invaluable handbook, based 

 on original records, to our primitive cults. 



For it is evident from his article that, space for space, 

 Guernsey had as many megaliths as the Morbihan itself, and 

 the Islands must not only have contained a large permanent 

 population in Neolithic times, but were a stronghold of the 

 ancient religion. 



This religion, which Miss Murray, in her " Witchcult in 

 Western Europe" identifies as the underlying motive of the 

 Pagan worship of Pan and of Diana, Isis, or Ashtoreth; of 



