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The Queer, the Quaint and the Quizzical

by Frank H. Stauffer

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Hell-stones

These were vast stones formerly used for covering graves, helicin being the Saxon for “to cover” or conceal. In Dorsetshire is one of these stones; and the tradition is, that the devil flung it from Portland Pike to its present position, as he was playing at quoits.

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