Click here to subscribe! Story by Jim Brace-Thompson. This story about wishing stones previously appeared in Rock & Gem magazine. The first person to find the stone is the only one who can use the stone and will. Only the person holding onto the stone when the wish is made will notice the effects of the wishes everyone else will believe any changes made by the stone is normal.
The numerous small cairns by the Wishing Stone bear witness to this tradition. A cairn was typically built at the site by the mourners using stones from the beach to remember the recently deceased. But as the goat supported the whole of them with her milk, she was obliged to have good food, and to be taken every day to pasture. There was once upon a time a tailor who had three sons, and only one goat. We have two wonderful kids and a healthy new grandson in far-off Scotland and a wise old cat and energetic Australian shepherd to keep us company. The Wishing Stone is a mystical item that grants unlimited wishes for the person who holds it. The Wishing Stone has also been a traditional stopping place for funeral processions from Lochaline to the graveyard at Drimnin. The Wishing-Table, the Gold-Ass, and the Cudgel in the Sack. The very best Wishing Stone has a single continuous line wrapping around it, a line unbroken and uninterrupted by other lines or streaks.Įver since that chance encounter, whenever we go beach combing-whether in northern Maine, southern California, or the shores of Scotland-we look not only for rocks with pretty colors but for those drab but magical Wishing Stones.ĭo they work? Well, I can’t say, but Nancy and I have been traveling this Earth for over 60 years. Make a wish on behalf of a person other than yourself then ALL your wishes come true. If you trace your finger around the line while closing your eyes and making a wish, then throw the stone into the sea as far as you can or give it to another person, your wish will come true. Legend has it that if you find a rock with a white or pink line all around it, you have found a Wishing Stone. She bent and picked out a drab gray rock with a belt of white quartz. She then asked, “Then why are you leaving behind all these Wishing Stones?” “Wishing Stones?” we asked. “Beachcombing for pretty rocks,” we replied. One autumn, on a particularly overcast, cold and windy morning that hinted of winter, we walked along the steely gray North Atlantic with eyes glued to the pebble-strewn beach.Ī local greeted us and asked what we were doing. Pin this post to save this information for later.Īlthough we live in California, my wife has a family homestead on the northern coast of Maine, which we visit often. Wishing stones may be drab gray rocks with a belt of white or pink but they are rumored to have the power to grant wishes.
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