Pierre qui Tourne (Bézancourt)

Originally about three meters high, the light menhir Pierre qui Tourne (also called menhir de la Drouetterie) is located in the Forêt de Lyons (forest) near the municipal boundary to the hamlet of Bézu-la-Forêt , south of Bézancourt and east of Rouen in the Dieppe arrondissement in the canton Gournay-en-Bray in the Seine-Maritime department in Normandy in France . Pierre qui Tourne is a name that was often given in southern Belgium and in France for megalithic structures and menhirs.

According to legend, the stone was a meeting place for witches and wizards . It is also said that on a certain day it was able to turn around itself every hundred years ( French tourner = to turn). In 1868 a forest worker overturned the stone. The forestry office later set it up again. One possible interpretation is that the Gallic population (the presumed builders of the stone) wanted to interpret the future from the wobbling of the apparently poorly erected monolith.

Web links

• Description and picture
• Short narration of the legend in French
• Longer article, in French

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6333520 . Retrieved September 17, 2018.
2. ↑ https://actu.fr/normandie/montville_76452/le-pays-de-bray-une-terre-de-legende-et-dhistoires-insolites_4764803.html . Retrieved September 17, 2018.
3. ↑ https://www.paris-normandie.fr/hemerotheque/ces-legende-qui-perdurent-802448-KWpn802448 . Retrieved September 17, 2018.

Coordinates: 49 ° 25 ′ 2.3 "  N , 1 ° 37 ′ 29.2"  E