• Devil ditch
• The boiler with butter
• The nut/mother God picture to rock
• The grace picture from the larch stick to forest rest
• Wall lime with wine deleted
• The four horseshoes
• Sinful love
• Rainbow over condemned


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Devil ditch

In the proximity of the village RWS by village, which lies not far from the city Strehlen in Niederschlesien, one sees a deep ditch, against a something removed brook constantly, in flat soil which by the people the devil ditch is called. A farmer from RWS by village was much in emergency, because he did not know, how he was to derive the ueberhandnehmende rain water from his fields. There the devil before him appeared and spoke: "give me sieve workers to the assistance, then I want to make for you still at this night a ditch, which takes off all water from your fields and be finished should, eh the morning have a horror." The farmer consented and delivered to the devil the workers with its tools. When it went out on the following day to visit the work the large broad ditch was completed, but the work people had disappeared, until one found the torn members of this unfortunate ones on the fields absent-minded all around.

The boiler with butter

Under a mountain of the Vispertales, not far of Alttesch, a whole village with church and houses is to be buried, and the cause of this misfortune is told in such a way: A farmer's wife stood before time at her stove and had a boiler with Anke, which she wanted to omit, over the fire hangen; the boiler was straight half fully Sud. went past there a man of the way and addressed it that it would like to give it something of the Anke to its meal. The woman was however hartherzig and said: "I custom of everything for me and cannot give away anything of it." There the man turned and spoke: "you would have given me a weniges, then want I your boiler so talented to have that he would have been full up to the edge always and would have become never empty." This man was our gentleman Mr.. The village however was since the time verflucht and became from a landslip completely ueberschuettet, so that nothing more of it at the light is than the surface of the church altar, which confessed formerly in the place; over flows now the Baechlein, which under it hang-fluent and now by the ravine the rock winds itself before.

The nut/mother God picture to rock

In the Vispertal at a schroffen rock wall of the Raetibergs behind pc. Niklas stand highly above, for the eyes hardly visibly, a small Marienbild in the stone. It stood otherwise down at the way in a now empty Kapellchen that the passing people could pray before it. Once however geschah's that Godless humans, whose desires had remained outrageous, excrement took and the holy picture with it threw; it cried tears: when it repeated however the frevel, there it hurried away, highly to the wall up, and did not want to not again down-go on the Flehen of the people. The rock hinanzuklimmen and it to fetch back was completely impossible; rather, the people thought, could them it above from the summit down approach, climbed the mountain and wanted a man, with strong cords to umwunden, so far down-float to leave, until he would come before the picture and in receipt could take it. However in lowering the cord, that they held it above, became down ever more thinly and more thinly, than it came evenly the picture near, as thinly as a hair that a terrible fear struck humans and he up-called: they should withdraw it over sake God, otherwise more waer it lost. Thus they pulled it again up, and the rope attained appreciably the previous strength. There the people had to be away from the grace picture and got it back never.
     

The grace picture from the larch stick to forest rest

In the year 1392 the large woman in the sky sent an angel out to Tirol into the forest rest on the Serlesberg. That stepped before a hollow larch stick and spoke to it in the name of the God nut/mother: "you stick are the women in the sky picture fruchten!" The picture grew now in the stick, and two pious shepherd boys, Haensle and Peterle from the Dorfe Mizens, protected its first in the year 1407. Surprised they ran down there to the farmers and told: "go on the Gebirg, there be located to something Wunderbarliches in the hollow stick, we dared not, it anzuruehren." The holy picture was now recognized, cut with a saw from the stick and brought meanwhile after Matrey. There it, until that it its own church was gebauet to the forest rest, stood in addition availed itself our love woman of a poor wood hacker named Lusch, sat to Matrey. When some Pfingsttags lay and slept night in its bed, a voice came, talked for three time and spoke: "do you sleep or do grow you?" And with third times awaked it and asked: "who you are or which you want?" The voice spoke: "you are to apply a chapel in the honour of our love women on the forest rest." There the holzhauer spoke: "I want to do that nit." But the voice turned again to the other Pfingsttagnacht and talked with it in that measure than before. There he spoke: "I am too poor in addition." There the voice came to the third Pfingsttagnacht however times to its bed and talked as forwards. Thus it had slept three night none before concerns and answered the voice: "as it means du's that you do not leave willt of me?" There the voice spoke: "you are it to do!" There he spoke: "I want to be nit to do!" There it took it and main header it gerad on up and said: "you are to do it, advise you drum!" There thought it: O I poor man, which advice I that ich's quite do? and spoke, he wanted to do it, where he would know only the right place. The voice spoke: "in the forest a greener mark is in the Moose, there lays down you and rests, then you kundgetan the right place probably becomes." The holzhauer opened itself, put on the Moos and rested (of it the place is called the rest in the forest, forest rest). How he had passed away, he heard two Gloeckel in sleeps. There it was awake and saw before itself on that to marks, since jetzund the church stood, a woman in white dresses and would have a child at the arm, ward it only a Blick1). There meant it: Allpowerful God, there is certainly the right place! And went on the place, since he had seen the picture, and merkt's out after that, as he meant to make a church, and the Gloeckel does not klungen, until he had expenditure-noticed, after heard he her any longer. There he spoke: "dear God, how is to spend ich's? I am not poor and have a property, there I such building with to spend like." There again the voice spoke: "in such a way go to pious people, those give you probably thus much that you spend it. And when it geschiehet that one it consecrations is, there it will stand still thirty six year, after it fuergaeng and will become large indications there happened at eternal times." And there it the chapel to begin wanted to make, went it to its Beichtvater and taet for it kund. There it created it before the bishop towards Brixen, there went it to five time towards Brixen that the bishop permitted to make the building and the chapel for it. That did the bishop and is happened on the Erchtag (Tuesday) before pc. Pankratius in the year 1409.

1. That is, it saw the feature only one instant.

Wall lime with wine deleted

In the year 1450 so sour grapes/clusters grew to Austria that most citizen people paid the gekelterten wine into the open road, because they might not have drunk it its harsh half. One called this wine Reifbeisser; after some, because the hoar frost the grapes/clusters spoil, after others, because the wine matures the dauben and the barrels with its sharpness would have bitten. There Friedrich III., Roman king, let a requirement go out the fact that nobody was to pour so the gift of God and who may not drink the wine, has to lead him on the Stephanskirchhof, there is the lime in the wine to be deleted and the church thereby built.
      To Glatz, against the boehmischen gate waerts, stand an old tower, approximately and rather highly; one calls it heath tower, because he built before age-old times in the Heidentum. It has strong walls and is the lime in addition with vainly wine to have been prepared.

The four horseshoes

To Ellrich formerly four tremendous horseshoes were festgenagelt and by all people were gazed at at the Tuere the old church; since the church broke in, they are kept in the minister dwelling. Before old times Ernst count is to have ridden to Klettenberg of one Sundays morning after Ellrich, in order to win by drinking the suspended ehrenpreis of a gold chain there. He attained also the thanks before many different, and the chain around the neck done, he wanted to return by the Staedtlein to Klettenberg. In the suburb it heard to sing into the Niklaskirche the Vesper; in tumble rides it by the municipality to before the altar; the Ross hardly enters its stages, then him all four horseshoes drop suddenly, and it sinks including its rider down.

Suendliche love

On that Peter mountains with Erfurt is a funeral of brother and sister, which are shown on that somewhat raised corpse stones. The sister was so beautiful that the brother, when it for a while in the foreigner course-broke and came back, seized violent loving to it and suendigte with it. Immediately the devil tore both the head off. On that corpse stones became their portraits to expenditure-strike, but the heads disappeared also here from the bodies, and only the prick remained, that they were fastened. One set others from brass on it, in addition, these came away, if one drew faces only with chalk over it, then were other tags of everything again extinguished.

Rainbow over condemned

When in June 1621 to Prague siebenundzwanzig outstanding men, who were complicated into the boehmischen riot, should are executed, a the same, Joh. Kutnauer, citizen captain in the old part of town, instaendig to the sky up called that an indication of the grace is given to him and its fellow citizens, and with so much confidence that he spoke, it does not doubt at all to receive such. When now the execution of the death penalties should begin evenly, a going rainbow after a small rain over so-called Lorenz mountains, which stopped at one hour to the Troste of the condemned ones, appeared.