According to legend, a beautiful maiden, the 'daughter of the earth', once lived here and was loved by the king of the sea, the 'water king'. Longing for her, he dug an underground passage from the sea to the Tatras. Lakes, the 'eyes of the sea', formed wherever he broke through to the surface. Devino pleso supposedly arose from the tears of a girl who mourned her beloved's death here and finally turned to stone.
WHERE TO FIND THE PLACE
Location and map
- Place
- Vysoké Tatry- Pohoří
- Municipality / starting point
- Vysoké Tatry- Pohoří
- District / region
- Not stated in the sources
- Country
- Not specified in the sources
- Location in the sources
- Not specified in the sources.
Approximate location on the map
The link searches for Vysoké Tatry- Pohoří and its surroundings. The sources do not establish the precise point of this legend.
Approximate location · municipality or area search. The distance comes from the sources, not a currently calculated route.
SOURCES OF THE STORY
Sources of the original atlas Tajemná místa · page 375
This legend preserves a folk tale. Its motifs do not constitute evidence of supernatural events.