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Legends

Published legends with provenance, confidence, and links into the atlas.

32 published materials

János Záblóczki’s Dream and the Szentkút

A blind man was said to dream that he should wash with water near Doroslovo.

Local retellings connect the spa’s decline to a storm, while documents suggest a longer and messier chronology.

In 1883 families from Banat sought higher ground and established Bácsgyulafalva.

A twenty-six-year-old man claimed he could recognise fairies and women flying above Sombor.

Doroslovo’s witches had a meeting place with a local name that now has to be recovered on the map.

A movement in Kolut offered well water and small protective objects, attracting the attention of church authorities.

In Bereg, it was considered a bad sign if the Kraljice procession did not enter a household’s yard.