Tour Scotland video of Callanish Standing Stones on the Island of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Local tradition says that giants who lived on the island refused to be converted to Christianity by Saint Kieran and were turned into stone as a punishment. Another local belief says that at sunrise on midsummer morning, the " shining one" walked along the stone avenue, " his arrival heralded by the cuckoo's call. " This legend could be a folk memory recalling the astronomical significance of the stones.
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