St'Anne Lake

   The, in the tradition, still living legend says 

that long time ago, on the lake's place, a 

huge mountain was standing opposing it an 

other mountain. on top of each mountain 

two devilish brother, Gáspár and Sándor 

count, built their castles, one of them from 

gold, the other from silver. They were 

always fighting each other, because none 

could stand if the other was doing better, 

and that kept the population, in the region, 

scared. 

  Once a rich man was traveling around, 

with his fancy cart with four beautiful horses 

and asked for a one night shelter from count 

Sándor. The greedy count wanted to by the 

traveler's cart with the horses and all, but 

the rich man wouldn't sell it for a thing.

However count Sándor was lucky and kept 

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trying to convince the traveler to play the.

dices with him. So after all the traveler fell 

in count Sándor's trap and lost his cart. 

After winning the cart, count Sándor told 

his brother about it, which made a bet 

with him, that if he won't be able to find 

a much more beautiful cart in one day, 

he'll give his brother all his wealth. So

count Gáspár had 

a devilish idea: he 

actually collected 

8 beautiful virgins 

from the neighbor 

regions, and with 

brilliant harness, he 

then harnessed 

them into his most

beautiful carriage. But the poor virgins 

couldn't even move that. Seeing that count 

Gáspár, become angry, and hit the virgin 

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