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Yada Stone is a stone known in Turkish cultural history to have been used in a manner akin to magic to control weather phenomena such as snow and rain. The Yada stone is mentioned under various names in Turkish dialects and Islamic sources: in Yakut as sata, in Kyrgyz as cay taş, in Kazakh as jadı taş and jay taş, in Bashkir as balataş and yeytaş, in Uyghur as kaştaş, in Altai as cada taş, and in Tuvan as çat taş. In Arabic Islamic sources it is referred to as hacerü'l-metar (rain stone), el-câl