GR Misc. "A Face in Ev'ry Stone"....

[Mark Kohut]

The 'country people' around Stratford in Shakespeare's time believed that many large stones were once men....

>From the Natural History of Oxfordshire, 1677:

At the extreme upper right corner there is a stone that stood nine feet high, and nearby lay a circle in which the tallest of the stones stood at seven feet; two furlongs away in real life, and down and to the right on the picture, lay a group of five other stones, with the tallest again reaching nine feet. Similar clustering of standing stones elsewhere in the county had spawned a legend among "the common people" who called them "Rollrich-stones, and dream[ed] they were somtimes men, by miraculous Metamorphosis turned into hard stones."3 3