Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1919 — Weird Sun Legend of Stonehenge. [ARTICLE]

Weird Sun Legend of Stonehenge.

In times of peace there was always ah excursion to Stonehenge on June 20 to see the sun rise on the following morning, for on the 21st old Sol’s first rays are supposed to strike the great altar-stone, on “Friar’s Heel.” This, tradition tells us, used to be the signal for the sacrifice of human victims in the days that are long gone by, and it is easy, when there, to imagine the early Druids, in their white robes, oak-drowned and wearing rtfte mystic symbols j round their necks, gathering to make their offerings to Bel,* as they called the sufl, and to the serpent, the Beltine fires, glowing over the great plain the while.