Endre Báthory's Death

  The guilty village was hit by God's 

punishment: 

  At the border of Szentdomokos there 

hasn't been harvest for three generations, 

and the villagers has been sentenced for 

weekly three days of fasting. Endre 

Báthory was a decent man, and he was 

voted as prince for his noble character. 

The infernal mighty wanted to destroy him, 

and for that, they sent on the earth the evil 

leader, Mihály, who destroyed Báthory's 

army, after all, and set a price for the 

decent man's head. Prince Báthory was 

able to escape on his horse, but as he got 

tired, after a while, he decided to rest at 

one of the spring waters at Pásztorbükk. 

In a short time he fall asleep. The hired 

assassins killed him in sleep, and brought 

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his head to the leader, Mihály. 

  On the assassination's place, blood 

came up from the ground, and for seven 

years only thistle grew on the limits of  

SzentDomokos, and the population 

weather died of hunger or wandered 

away. 

  After seven years a young priest came 

along the countryside and placed a cross 

at the place of the assassination. The 

cross shot roots in the ground, right away, 

and became a cross formed pollen tree. 

The blood stopped flowing, and the 

ground got its fruitfulness back. 

  As the legend says, the assassins 

descendents are recognized after their 

right arm being longer than the left. 

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