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El artículo discurre sobre las piedras del Sitio Rollright en Inglaterra. El autor comenta sobre las antigüedades prehistóricas, el filósofo y psicoanalista francés Jacques Lacan y el folclor y la historia oral de Gran Bretaña. Otros temas incluyen la arqueología y el periodo neolítico.

During the middle years of the twentieth century, British pioneers of Wicca, the neopagan witchcraft religion, adopted prehistoric megaliths as ‘sacred sites’ and appropriated the folklore that surrounded them for their own magico-religious purposes. In turn, Wiccan interpretations of such sites resulted in the creation of a new ‘alternative archaeological’ megalithic folklore. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents abstracts of the articles that appear in this issue of the journal and provides brief biographies of the authors, including Catherine Grant, who wrote an article on creative writing and art history, Nicholas Chare, who wrote an article on the Rollright Stones in England, and Gavin Parkinson, whose article on narrative, middle voice, and art writing is included in this issue.

The article discusses the Rollright Stones in Oxfordshire, England, Neolithic (c. 2800-2000 BCE) stone monuments that are called the King's Men, the King Stone, and the Whispering Knights, though the King's Men is the author's primary focus. A description is provided of the arrangement of the stones, their possible significance as a burial place, the moss and algae that grow on them, and the temperature of the rocks. Other topics include folklore as a form of oral history, folk tales, archaeology, rituals involving the stones and pork feasts, and the difficulties of writing about art history.