This story has been published in Exotic Life: Travel Tales of an Adventurous Woman. When I share my surprise results and daily visits with Noel, he exclaims, “By gosh, I’ll have to build a hut over the stone so youse won’t get soaked in the mist.” This instant response inspires a daily pilgrimage to the wishing stone for the rest of my visit. An email arrives for me that announces I’m going to receive a tidy sum of money from an unexpected source! It is a doozy of conjuring that solves a major financial problem in my life. Less than twenty-four hours after my sitting session, my wish is answered in a way I never expected. In silence, with eyes closed, hawthorn branches pricking my head like a crown of thorns, I wish mightily. I take a turn, folding myself on top of the foot-square dome of lichen-pocked granite. He responds, “Oh yes, indeed, many a time, and the wishes always come true.” I hustle right over there with Noel in the mid-summer twilight.Īs he cautiously holds down the electric wire fence for me to step over, I query Noel, “Have you sat on the wishing stone and made wishes?” Well, I don’t feel that way, ambitious American alpha female that I am. “Violet, have you ever made a wish on the stone?” Ye need to sit on the stone without touching the earth around it-every part of yer body. She says, “Ye must go to the wishing stone right here on the castle grounds by the lake. Ireland is a bastion of superstition and magical lore. One blustery night at dinner, I ask Violet about sacred sites. This stone was formed more than 50 million years ago by. During the famine they’d walk for days reaching the shore, where the boats were sailing to America only to die right there on the beach of hunger.” Her dense brogue unfurls the story of Ireland’s tragic past as she lays down plates piled high with her special boiled potatoes, roast lamb and aromatic mint sauce on the well-polished trestle table for our dinner at Crom Castle. Help improve Atlas Obscura by expanding Clach Na Criche (The Wishing Stone) with additional information or photos. Bodies of bones still jagging out of the rocky beaches at County Donegal which, Violette (our cook at Crom Castle) shares is, “just a wee drive to the West. All blended in with the mysteries and legends of their history. It wraps around the stories they love to lavish on visitors, stories and stories and stories piled up like strawberries on trifle. The Irish people’s thick accents slather around their words as rich as the dairy cream they pour on top of the delectable Irish coffees-as smooth and blankety as the dense foam on the head of a pint of Guinness. Hasn’t any excuse at all.“Forty Shades of Green” it is, this land of ancient stone cairns. Your ears and eyes open, it’s easy enough Minute, a Merry Little Breeze came hurrying The very tender įinest, softest grasses for the inside. Wasn’t, and so he thought it best to avoid
It was delightfully cool and comfortable. I wish I was a meadow-mouse!”īare-legged, freckle-faced, sulky boy sitting The eyes disappeared,ĭoubtful, a little fearful, but tremendously 5,408,444 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) Customer Reviews, 4.6 out of 5. It just as he had been scowling at everybodyĪs if he thought it had no business to be The Wishing Stone ISBN-10, 1609920643 ISBN-13, 978-1609920647 Best Sellers Rank. The other fellows were over at the swimming-hole. Want to find anything pleasant or nice in ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WISHING-STONE STORIES***Īnd the Online Distributed Proofreading Team Located in the United States, you'll have to check the laws of theĬountry where you are located before using this ebook.Īuthor: Thornton W.
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Under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this You may copy it, give it away or re-use it This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United StatesĪnd most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no (Thornton Waldo) Burgess, Illustrated by Harrison Cady As the story progresses the wishes get way out of hand. In this book sally one of the main characters is walking through the woods and finds a wishing stone. This is a horror book that contained tons of action as Cindy, Watch, and Sally go to all different kinds of dimensions. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Wishing-Stone Stories, by Thornton W. Over the past month I read The wishing stone by Christopher Pike. The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Wishing-Stone Stories, by Thornton W.
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