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25th July 2005
My sister recounted how her dreams the previous night took a 'strange
turn' in her words she 'took a step back in her dream state and saw
something unpleasant', a wake she opened eyes and in a waking state she
saw an image with open eyes. Praying she removed the entity and then
turning over troubled by the expereince, she saw a second albeit
‘weaker’ entity – again she prayed to remove all such spirits [as
opposed to one!] and returned to sleep. Typically this was about 4am.
Basically the question was where had she encountered these spirits;
it’s always a, who, where, why, question? How did they come to her?
Quickly we established the most likely answer. She was riding her horse
across moor land yesterday. As it happened I had a local map out on a
desk in my office, we unfolded it to trace her ride and found as she
recalled she had indeed passed set of standing stones. These were
called ‘Willycock stones’ – you couldn’t make this up!
The Pagan beliefs associated with these type megaliths don’t require
any great elaboration – the name says it all – to this day people still
remember regard and use standing stones superstitionally as fertility
symbols, even more so with the reemergence of paganism as a religion.
It's worth noting the village of Crosby Garret is near by – its ancient
church is built on an earlier site – in all probability a Stone Circle,
or similiar as it is sited on a hill, and alike almost all old churches
are in this area it is outside the village proper. It is safe to say if
the church is old and village surrounds it – then the village isn’t
old. Crosby Garret’s church according to legend was to be built in the
valley, and the materials were placed on site during the day, but
during the night some unseen force [sometimes attributed to the devil]
carried the stones and timber to the hill top. The villagers in some
accounts return the materials to the original site, only to awake to
find the process has repeated, in any event they gave up and built the
church on the hill!
Stone Circles are always built on ‘high places’ i.e. open land with
elevated views, usually surrounded by even higher hills e.g.
Crosby Garrett Church
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