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Hello,
I am planning to go on the Camino with Camino Ways. I heard there is a stone or several stones that one must carry and drop somewhere.
Please explain to me what it is and how to do it.
Also, I am a woman, almost 60 years old and will be travelling alone. Is it possible to get a knowledgeable guide to walk with me so I am safe and need the help walking.
Thank you.
I don't mean to put a downer on this thread but here goes. A thread was on the forum a few years ago about souvenir hunters scouring the site and taking what they could see, it is still considered lucky to have a pilgrim item - I learnt that from a hospitalera at a well known albergue before Cruz de Ferro. So if you don't mind your item becoming an another persons lucky charm it is a good place to leave something. When I went through in January, I could see someone with a wheelbarrow searching and collecting items from the little group who had gone through an hour or two earlier, I startled him and he stopped straight away and walked off. People know its going on but its still frowned on.
As has been stated before, the stone ritual is supposed to represent baggage you are leaving behind. But honnestly it is a pain for the local authorities to clean up with tractors of all sorts, and costly. Because these do need to be removed and are removed.
Some people have expanded the stone idea and bring teddy bears, photos, trinkets, and all these end up making a mess, flying away, etc. Is there really a symbolic gesture meant to represent a fesh start and old baggage that needs to polute someone else's environment and surroundings? I think we sweat quite enough to get "the uglies out" without poluting and causing our hosts to have to endure cost and time to manage our symbolic gestures.
Why should they have to deal with that as well as with the rest of our footprint? It costs them an arm and a leg to remove that mountain of "pebbles" annually. Do we need to also have them pick up after us for something completely under our control unlike an emergency BM?With respect, of all the "footprints" pilgrims leave behind in Spain, a single pebble (or marble, rosary, etc.) from each passing pilgrim has to be the easiest to deal with by local authorities.
The main reason for my like.(And I'm REALLY glad I hadn't asked "did you take" rather than my "did you see?" )
thank you. In several wars I've seen man at his worst, but I refuse to accept that as anything but a major aberration. I like to rule out at least six positive explanations for a situation first. Seven on a sunny day.The main reason for my like.
For me it was a place to leave not only stones but my personal darkness. I can't explain it any better, The Camino is a living church for some of us.
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