he was flung, little else than a lifeless corpse." The "corpse" was seemingly but a severe stun, for an hour or so later, St. Sampson by the power of prayer successfully restored the patient to life, in view of which miracle Guedianus and all his tribe prostrated themselves at St. Sampson's feet, and "utterly destroyed the idol".[329] The idol here mentioned if not itself a standing stone, was admittedly associated with one, and happily many of these Aubrey or Bryanstones are still standing. One of the most celebrated antiquities of Cornwall is the so-named _men scryfa_ or "inscribed rock," and the inscription running from top to bottom reads--RIALOBRAN CUNOVAL FIL. [Illustration: FIG. 169--From _Symbolism of the East and West_. (Aynsley, Mrs. Murray.)] As history knows nothing of any "Rialobran, son of Cunoval," one may suggest that Rialobran was the _Ryall_ or _Royal Obran_, _Obreon_ or _Oberon_, the _bren_ or Prince of Phairyland who figures so largely in the Romance of mediæval Europe. The Rialobran stone of Cornwall may be connoted with the ceremonial _perron du roy_ still standing in the Channel Islands, and with the numerous _Browny_ stones of Scotland. In Cornwall the phairy _brownies_ seem to have been as familiar as in Scotland[330]: in the Hebrides--and as the Saint of this neighbourhood is St. Bride, the word Hebrides may perhaps be rendered _eu Bride_--every family of any importance once possessed a most obliging household Browny. Martin, writing in the eighteenth century, says: "A spirit by the country people called Browny was frequently seen in all the most considerable families in these Isles and North of Scotland in the shape of a tall man, but within these twenty or thirty years past he is seen but rarely." As the cromlechs of Brittany are termed _poukelays_ or "puck stones," it is possible that the _dolmens_ or _tolmens_ of there and elsewhere were associated with the fairy _tall man_. Still speaking of the Hebrides Martin goes on to say: "Below the chapels there is a flat thin stone called Brownie's stone, upon which the ancient inhabitants offered a cow's milk every Sunday, but this custom is now quite abolished". The official interpretation of dolmen is _daul_ or _table stone_, but it is quite likely that the word _tolmen_ is capable of more than one correct explanation.