Shadows of the Past part 12: The Curse of Memory
This part of the novella ( Shadows of the Past ) has been published today and is only a small section. It was inspired in part by The Whispering Knights at the Rollright Stones on the border of Oxfordshire and Warwickshire. The Rollrights The Whispering Men is a dolmen located close to the main circle, The King's Men, and there's also the King Stone which sits nearby. According to legend, they were an army who were transformed into stone when they were cursed by a witch. I doubt that story is particularly novel, really. It seems like it would be a pretty common idea in later epochs, one concocted to explain their presence at a time when "humans dragged stones for miles to build something" was probably an alien concept, and when the predominant thoughts about time was that the Earth was less than 4000 years old. I suspect the idea that when you count the stones you never reach the same number twice (and that bad things happen if you manage to get the same number thr
