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Stone Cairns in Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park

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Stone Cairns in Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park

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    November 4, 2022

    In Scandinavian countries, cairns serve as protection against trolls and as landmarks on the paths in foggy weather. The Inuit used them to hunt reindeer, and in some Buddhist cultures the stone towers are considered sacred.

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      October 24, 2022

      The original purpose of cairns was to mark paths. Nowadays they like to be simply built in certain places and develop into large "cairn armies".

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        Location: Hattgenstein, Landkreis Birkenfeld, Landkreis Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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