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==In folklore== [[File:Mên an Tol (small) (9705213).jpg|thumb|right|A view through the Mên-an-Tol holed stone]] Mên-an-Tol is supposed to have a [[fairy]] or [[piskie]] guardian who can make miraculous cures. In one story, a [[changeling]] baby was put through the stone in order for the mother to get the real child back. Evil piskies had changed her child, and the ancient stones were able to reverse their evil spell.<ref> W. Y. Evans-Wentz, (1911), ''The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries''. London: H. Frowde (Reprinted 1981 by Colin Smythe. {{ISBN|0-901072-51-6}}) p. 179). </ref> Another legend is that passage through the stone will cure a child of rickets ([[osteomalacia]]). For centuries, children with rickets were passed naked through the hole in the middle stone nine times.
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