The Merry Maidens

So do we have any other examples that you could give us?

Well, yes, there's the Merry Maidens down in West Cornwall.

So if you head down towards Land's End, you know, Mousel and that beautiful area is just covered with, in particularly Neolithic monuments, there are lots of them.

This is an early Bronze Age stone circle near St Barian and there are 19 stones that are thought to have been 19 maidens from a wedding party who danced in a field on a Saturday evening and continued into the Sabbath.

And of course, it's a great way to explain, you know, where these monuments came from to people who didn't understand, you know, the Neolithic or the early Bronze Age, you know.

We've got our Nine Ladies Stone Circle.

We've got Merry Maidens and Two Pipers.

Are there any more petrified women?

Do you connect, do you lean into any of the folkloric? connected to cornwall and do you have a sense of spirit of place you know that essence of the energy and if you do how important is all of that for you in your practice

that's good as well i don't really follow the folklore or anything i like to feel energies myself and have my own opinions and stuff although i respect things I do love sacred sites in Cornwall, especially the Merry Maidens.

Have you ever heard of them? It's just trippy as hell.

It's incredible.