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The Menhir de la Tiemblais in Saint-Sansom-sur-Rance was designated as the “Long Stone” in the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries, then as the “Pierre de Saint Samson” or the “Pierre de la Tomberai”. This Menhir carries an important legendary tradition.
Saint Samson would thus have stayed near the menhir, exposed to the temptations of the devil. Faced with the failure of the latter's maneuvers, he would have thrown, in spite, his whip at the menhir, which was marked, as evidenced by a filament of quartz flush with the surface of the megalith.
Another legend reports that the menhir is one of the three "holes" blocking the entrance to hell, or that it prevents the sea from gushing out through the hole it blocks, thus avoiding a new flood.
It is also called "erusser rock": Like many sites in Côtes d'Armor, the young girl who managed to slip into it "in baptism pants" without getting too scratched was certain to get married within the year.
But the objective originality lies in its dimensions and its morphology: 8 meters high and 7.5m in diameter. They reveal that it was retouched in different places to obtain this particular shape, just as its inclination may have been deliberate and not accidental.
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