A guest wrote How about this mysterious one... ROLLING OF THE STONES

and asks about the tablet.

It's important to note from the start that the text quoted here is inauthentic, and altered in minor but significant ways. Apart from an un-printed fragment in the James Madison Carpenter collection (which I have not seen but is only a fragment, and might even be from the same source as the one authentic text), there is only one text of "The Rolling of the Stones," from a Mary Elwood Harmon, and printed by Linscott:

Oh, will you go to the rolling of the stones
Or the tossing of the ball?
Or will you go and see pretty Susie
And dance among them all?

I will not go to the rolling of the stones
Or the tossing of the ball
But I will go and see pretty Susie
And dance among them all

They had not danced but a single dance
More than once or twice around
Before the sword by Bell's side
Gave him his fatal wound

They picked him up and carried him out
For he was in distress
They carried him and buried him all in the green woods
Where he was content to rest

Pretty Susie she came mourning by
With a tablet on her arm
...
...

She charmed the fish out of the sea
And the birds out of their nests
Until she came where her true love lay,
Where he was content to rest.

Note the following differences between the traditional text and the text supplied by Guest (as rewritten Holly Tannen, maybe? I don't know, but it sounds like something she might do): first, that the girl is Susie, not Annie; second, that the sword is at "Bell's" side (no idea what that means); third, that Susie does not resurrect her lover -- it's not even clear that she did magic; she might just be such a good dancer that all nature attends her. (I agree that magic is the likeliest explanation, but it isn't axiomatic.)

Also, I am not convinced that this is Child #49. The only thing they have in common is the dreadful unintended wound. There is no stepmother, no half-brother, no sporting contest, no helpful excuses by the dying brother. The unintended wound might have drifted in from Child #49 (floating verses happen!), but even that is not a guarantee.

But if the rest of the song is not Child #49, or is a graft onto Child #49, then the tablet becomes an element from some other song. Maybe Susie has come from school bearing her tablet. Or maybe, since we have no source for the other song, it's a curse-tablet, even though that is not an Anglo-American tradition.

In any case, there isn't much warrant for calling "The Rolling of the Stones" a song about a magical dance or a magical place. Mysterious, yes, given our one damaged text. But that means that we don't have much to go on. :-)