Experience Dolmen & Menhirs in Wéris
Rolf, our local guide, is waiting for us at La Maison des Mégalithes.
Arduenna Experience starts.
On the way to the Devil's Bed we walk along quiet meadows.
We carefully approach the empty Devil's Bed. Rolf reassures us and tells us the interesting legend of the Devil's Bed. Fascinated by sagas, myths and legends we quickly reach a higher level. On the short but tough climb to the white menhir 'Pierre Haina' we feel in our legs that we are entering holy ground or has our lactic acid gone into the red.
On trembling legs we listen to Midsummer Night's stories and the petrification of the primeval ancestor 'Pierre Haina'. In the past, before the arrival of imposed Christianity, the white menhir was whitewashed twice a year by our ancestors. As a result, the Pierre Haina became an important sight in the valley. The white menhir was and is the centre of the pagan megalithic system. Before we leave this legendary place, we quickly make a silent wish at the mythical ‘Wishing Tree’.
In the company of imaginary fairies, we walk on clouds through the hedgerow landscape along the Dolmen of Wéris and d'Oppange. Here we hear fascinating stories about the soul hole and the 29 human sacrifices that are buried here.
Respectfully we cross ‘Carrefour de Sorcier’. According to tradition, important measurements of druids are said to have taken place at the ‘Wizard’s Crossroads’. We greet the lonely 3.60 metre high menhir Danthine. It stands here all alone in the landscape. According to our guide, the menhir is not in its place. Originally it stood somewhere in the “Field of the Long Stone”. However, it is now a landmark in the wide area along the Barvaux-Erezée road. Which archaeologist 2.0 can find his ‘roots’.
The horizon is starting to turn orange. The Devil can appear in the landscape at any moment.
Time to safely return to the rural village with its beautifully restored limestone and sandstone half-timbered houses.
At the ‘Puddingsteen’ we enjoy this unique prehistoric place with its many legends, sagas and myths.
Darkness has entered, time to say goodbye to the ‘five thousand year’ old pagan calendar.
Highly recommended to experience the Dolmen and Menhirs of Wéris in the company of Rolf - Arduenna Experience.
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