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Stone Table

Also known as the Stone Table

The ancient table where the White Witch claims Edmund under the Deep Magic. Aslan’s sacrifice and return transform it into the central site of Narnia’s liberation.

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In the chronicles

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe14 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter VIII · paragraph 29…ll. Word has been sent that you are to meet him, to-morrow if you can, at the Stone Table."Open passage →
  2. Chapter VIII · paragraph 74…s. Was he still here when I told you that the place for meeting Aslan was the Stone Table?"Open passage →
  3. Chapter IX · paragraph 1…t Aslan and until he had heard the whole arrangement for meeting Aslan at the Stone Table. It was then that he began very quietly to edge himself under the curtain which hung over the door. For the men…Open passage →
  4. Chapter X · paragraph 7…nt as big a start as we can possibly get," said Peter, "if we're to reach the Stone Table before her?"Open passage →
  5. Chapter XI · paragraph 6…whatever you find there. If they are already gone, then make all speed to the Stone Table, but do not be seen. Wait for me there in hiding. I meanwhile must go many miles to the West before I find a pl…Open passage →
  6. Chapter XI · paragraph 18… its stone fork fixed forever half-way to its stone mouth) seated round a stone table on which there were stone plates and a stone plum pudding.Open passage →
  7. Chapter XII · paragraph 3…tle to the right (that meant a little to the South) to reach the place of the Stone Table. Even if this had not been their way, they couldn't have kept to the river valley once the thaw began, for with…Open passage →
  8. Chapter XII · paragraph 6…ed Peter to Susan. "The sea!" In the very middle of this open hilltop was the Stone Table. It was a great grim slab of grey stone supported on four upright stones. It looked very old; and it was cut al…Open passage →
  9. Chapter XIII · paragraph 2"No," said the Dwarf, "it is no use now, O Queen. They must have reached the Stone Table by now."Open passage →
  10. Chapter XIII · paragraph 11"I would like to have done it on the Stone Table itself," said the Witch. "That is the proper place. That is where it has always been done before."Open passage →
  11. Chapter XIV · paragraph 26… same route which they had used that afternoon in coming from the Hill of the Stone Table. On and on he led them, into dark shadows and out into pale moonlight, getting their feet wet with the heavy de…Open passage →
  12. Chapter XIV · paragraph 36… they saw that they were going with him up the slope of the hill on which the Stone Table stood. They went up at the side where the trees came furthest up, and when they got to the last tree (it was on…Open passage →
  13. Chapter XV · paragraph 8…t she saw that whatever-it-was had begun to move up the upright stones of the Stone Table. And now whatever-they-were were moving about on Aslan's body. She peered closer. They were little grey things.Open passage →
  14. Chapter XV · paragraph 25…ed--that for a moment they didn't see the important thing. Then they did. The Stone Table was broken into two pieces by a great crack that ran down it from end to end; and there was no Aslan.Open passage →
The Horse and His Boy1 cited passage⌄
  1. Chapter XII · paragraph 37…n Mountains. And that round hill away on your right is called the Hill of the Stone Table. Just beyond----"Open passage →
Prince Caspian6 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter VII · paragraph 41…ent workmanship supported the roof. In the centre was the Stone itself--a stone table, split right down the centre, and covered with what had once been writing of some kind: but ages of wind and ra…Open passage →
  2. Chapter VIII · paragraph 54…en he turned to the others. "What Trumpkin calls Aslan's How is obviously the Stone Table itself. You remember it was about half a day's march, or a little less, from there down to the Fords of Beruna-…Open passage →
  3. Chapter VIII · paragraph 63…e to Glasswater Creek and row up it? That brings us up behind the Hill of the Stone Table, and we'll be safe while we're at sea. If we start at once, we can be at the head of Glasswater before dark, ge…Open passage →
  4. Chapter IX · paragraph 19"That's right. Cross it and strike uphill, and we'll be at the Stone Table (Aslan's How, I mean) by eight or nine o'clock. I hope King Caspian will give us a good breakfast!"Open passage →
  5. Chapter XI · paragraph 30… glimmer of trees about half a mile away. She knew it. It was the hill of the Stone Table.Open passage →
  6. Chapter XV · paragraph 19…ur people showed me long ago when you ate away the cords that bound me on the Stone Table (and it was then, though you have long forgotten it, that you began to be Talking Mice), you shall have your ta…Open passage →
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader1 cited passage⌄
  1. Chapter XIII · paragraph 62…It was a knife like it that the White Witch used when she killed Aslan at the Stone Table long ago."Open passage →
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CharacterAslan

The great Lion, creator and sovereign of Narnia.

→CharacterJadis

The last queen of Charn, brought into the Wood between the Worlds by Digory.

→ConceptDeep Magic

The law written into Narnia from the beginning, invoked by the White Witch in her claim over traitors.

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