: Their elongated, tapering shape earned them folklore nicknames like "Devil's Fingers" or "St. Peter’s Fingers" .
Long before scientists identified them as fossils, people across Europe and Asia found these pointy stones and created elaborate legends to explain them: belemnite
: In various regions, ground-up belemnites were used as folk remedies for ailments like rheumatism, sore eyes, and even kidney stones in horses. 3. The "Belemnite Battlefields" : Their elongated, tapering shape earned them folklore