Folk Tales of Rock and Stone

Folk Tales of Rock and Stone gathers traditional and newly created stories shaped by the many forms rock and stone can take. Jenny Moon ranges from magical adder stones and statues to pottery, salt, pebbles, buildings, flint tools, fossils, gemstones and ammonites, linking each tale to the geological or archaeological interest of its subject.

The collection includes a Cornish story about Cherry and the Stone People, a Lewis tale involving an adder stone and a seer, and the romance, betrayal and escape behind the Willow Pattern design. Facts and geological observations accompany the storytelling, making the book suitable for family reading while showing how ordinary stones can carry histories, beliefs and imaginative meaning.