This megalith is almost 10 meters high but it is quite hard to judge its size from the photo. It is one of the largest menhirs in the region.
Of course, many legends surround its origins. The most common features the devil and St. Samson; when the Devil, who was sitting on Mont Dol, saw Saint Samson constructing the cathedral in Dol, he grabbed a huge rock and threw it at the building in order to destroy it. But the stone missed its target and destroyed only the upper part of one of two towers, that's why there is only one complete tower
The rock landed a few miles away and embedded itself into the ground in what is now called the Champ Dolent.
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