"The Justice Stone", Or the Last Sacrifice

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Excerpt from "The Justice Stone", Or the Last Sacrifice: And Other PoemsDuring a residence of forty-three years in the parish of Abercorn, the remaining landmarks of its history formed a subject deeply interesting to me, and not the least of these was its Justice Stone (the Clad: a mizaz'a' of our ancestors), situated in the Big Wood, Hopetoun. The most primitive places of worship of our forefathers were at the great boulders - the footprints of the ice age - found scattered over the land These stones, often very difi'erent in their nature from the rocks in the neighbourhood, awoke a kind of awe and superstitious dread in the minds of the common people. The priests were not slow to recognize this feeling and turn it to account. At many of these boulders sacrifices and votive gifts to the gods and to the priests were ofi'ered they also became Seats of Justice. One likes the idea of such Courts being held in the full blaze of the noon-day sun.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.