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Pair of upright slate slabs on the broogh above Dhoon Bay, in the parish of Maughold.
W. Walter Gill recorded the stones as standing just above the bay, north of the shore. They were locally called the Giant's Stones, while their Manx name was given as Meir ny Foawyr, “Fingers of the Giant”.
Gill described them as smooth slabs of slate, each a few inches thick and about ten feet high by ten feet across. They stood upright and parallel in the ground, approximately eighteen inches apart.
One tradition explained them as the giant's fingers. Another said that the stones were the petrified bodies of a giant and his wife.
A local wishing custom was attached to the narrow gap between them. The person making the wish stood squeezed between the two slabs, facing north-east towards the sea, with one palm placed flat against each stone.
Gill recorded the practice as oral tradition. The present evidence does not establish its age or connect it securely with a particular religious site.