The designation of the ‘devil’s forge’, given by custom to the Fontanaccia dolmen, found its origin in one of these beliefs and as for the dolmen itself, it was Prosper Mérimée through the publication of his works ‘Notes from a trip to Corsica’ in 1840 (Fournier) that gave it the current celebrity.
Let us propose an extract from this work :
‘According to a tradition that no-one believes any more, but, is nevertheless related to children, not unlike the stories of the bogeyman – the devil would have assembled these stones by hand, in order to use them as an anvil...
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