A few years back, I came across a French language journal about “Celtic studies” that was very hard to get a hold of. There was an article in there about oracular and speaking stones in Britain and Ireland by a woman named Ellen Ettlinger.
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I have rarely seen her articles cited, if ever. It seems she has been forgotten. But she did a great deal of work and took a lot of photographs across England and Ireland detailing folk customs and such.
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She has living descendants now, it sounds like.
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Anyway, I thought this was interesting. Her article I mentioned is very cool.
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Source: Alison Petch, “Ellen Ettlinger, Folklore, and the University of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum,” Journal of Museum Ethnography 23 (2010): 136 - 154.
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Ellen Ettlinger, “Oracular and Speaking Stones in Celtic Britain,” Ogam: tradition celtique 14 (1962): 485 - 492.
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