- hagstone
- A widespread name for a *holed stone, when used to prevent *hag-riding; the word is first recorded by Francis Grose (A Provincial Glossary, 1787).
A Dictionary of English folklore. Jacqueline Simpson & Steve Roud. 2014.
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