_St. Wilfrid's Needle in Yorkshire_,--"where they used to try maids,
whether they were honest." (_Burton._) Does this stone exist? "Ancient
writers do not mention," says Lingard, "Stonehenge, Abury, &c., as
appendages to _places of worship_ among the Celtæ," therefore may it not be
that these remains of antiquity were devoted to vain superstitions of the
ignorant people, if not to gloomy rites of the officiating priests of the
British Druids? The gigantic obelisks of single stones, called the "Devil's
Arrows," near Boroughbridge, and the assemblage of rocks called Bramham
Crags, a few miles north-west of Ripon, are considered to have been
Druidical. Is St. Wilfrid's either of these? and can farther information
about this rock be afforded?