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The ice sheet covering northern europe started to melt away, and with that we got what is called "glacial erratics". Rocks had traveled from once place to another, and then settled. In Sweden we call those "giants throw", because it was assumed that the only way those big rocks could be where they are was if a giant had thrown it.
In Finland those are called siirtolohkare (moved boulder) or hiidenkivi (devil's rock)
I think we have the same terminology then, we also call them "flyttblock". Is there a story behind them being called Devil's rock? It sounds very finnish to me to be honest.
Well "hiisi" translates to "devil" but that's very much a political translation as far as such things existed back then.
Translating "Hiisi" as "the Devil" is quite a fuck-the-pagans translation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiisi
I think "the Fae" would be a more accurate translation, theology-wise.
It's not literally devil (paholainen) but Hiisi, which is something similar in finnish mythology which obviously doesn't have a translation.
It's likely simply "only devil could have brought that stone here"