Legend about the lake "Marіcheyka"

There is an interesting legend about picturesque the mountain lake Maricheyka that on the massif Chornohora in the Ukrainian Carpathians. And there was all this as the legend narrates, in an extreme antiquity. Once black carrion crows angry foes on the green and blossoming Carpathian region flew. They destroyed villages, lost the people and who escaped, escaping, went far to mountains. But enemies learned that Huzuls disappear somewhere in the dense woods, and moved a horde after them.

Maricheyka, the young wife of the shepherd Ivan, saw enemies and persuaded the husband to go and warn people. But enemies found Maricheyka and ordered to conduct to Huzuls. And the courageous woman brought them in such wild and solitudes from where and not to be chosen. Enemies became angry snatched on it. The earth began to tremble, terrible wind blew, burst a thunder... Also stones flew up into the sky, mountains moved and the lake was formed. Enemies also found the death in it. Since then the wood in honor of brave girls began to call Maiden, and the lake - Maricheyki.


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