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Lia Fail · salience 0.7

“The literary and historical record agrees that Celtic kings were inaugurated standing on sacred stones, and the Lia Fail is the most famous of the class; a phallic pillar stone stands on the hill of Tara today under the name, though tradition itself hedges — one legend insists the real stone remained forever in the otherworld and only a replica was sent into this one.”

Basajaun

“He has also been linked by folklorists to the megalithic dolmens and cromlechs found in the Basque mountains, which local legend sometimes attributes to the Basajaun's own labor.”

Korrigan

“Sources describe Korrigans as small, in some tellings less than two feet tall, with translucent, wasp-like wings, and closely tied to the landscape of pre-Celtic stone circles and megalithic monuments still found across Brittany, where they were said to hold circle dances at dolmens and menhirs, particularly by moonlight.”