kaszuby-i-pomorze: Stolemy

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Giants, Huns, and the Devil: Geofolklore of Erratic Boulders in the Southern Baltic Lowlands and Their Geocultural Significance. The association of supernatural imagery with elements of the landscape was a common phenomenon in traditional cultures (Piotrowski 2024; Juśkiewicz et al. 2025). This process depends on the cultural context and encompasses two fundamental levels of the relationship between the abiotic environment and humans: symbolic interaction or/and utilitarian interaction. Symbolic interactions shaped the perception and meaning of erratic boulders. Legends (belief narratives) – similar to myths – link the existence of geological objects with the actions of supernatural forces,…

Evidence: 47 • authority: 88

Great Glacial Giants: Erratic Boulders in Poland as Sources of Geomythology. Erratic boulders are among the most striking geological features left behind by former ice sheets. In Poland, repeated advances and retreats of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet (FIS) during the Pleistocene resulted in the deposition of thick sequences of clastic sediments and fragments of Scandinavian bedrock of varying sizes, including large erratic boulders. These impressive geological objects are not only valuable archives of past glacial activity, but also play an important role in society, functioning as natural resources, prominent landscape markers, and rich sources of geomythological narratives.This study examin…

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Great glacial giants: erratic boulders of northern Poland as witnesses of the Pleistocene ice age and beyond. Erratic boulders are among the most spectacular geological phenomena left in the landscape by past ice sheets. In Central Europe, the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet (FIS) advanced and retreated several times during the Pleistocene, depositing thick layers of clastic sediments and fragments of Scandinavian bedrock of various sizes, including large erratics. Northern Poland, in particular, features a landscape rich in erratic boulders deposited by the last FIS around 24–15 ka. These large erratics are fascinating geological objects, providing valuable information about the flow directi…

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Stolemy (kaszub. Stolemë) – w kaszubskich legendach olbrzymy, które przed wiekami zamieszkiwały tereny Kaszub. Pozostałością po ich obecności są jakoby liczne wielkie głazy, które stolemowie porozrzucali podczas walk lub zawodów siłowych. Takie kamienie, określane jako „stolemowe”, znajdują się m.