At the northern foot of Buková, in the mountain ravine of Kouty near Těchlovice, stands a boulder resembling a woman’s bust. According to legend, it is a girl petrified by her grandmother’s curse for picking strawberries here during Mass. She supposedly once also held a stone pot full of stone strawberries, but Gaube, a poacher once famous in the area, shot it from her hand.
Location and map
- Place
- Buková - Hora
- Municipality / starting point
- Buková
- District / region
- Děčín
- Country
- Czechia
- Distance and direction
- 15 km NE of Ústi nad Labem
At the northern foot of Buková, in the mountain ravine of Kouty near Těchlovice, stands a boulder resembling a woman’s bust. According to legend, it is a girl petrified by her grandmother’s curse for picking strawberries here during Mass. She supposedly once also held a stone pot full of stone strawberries, but Gaube, a poacher once famous in the area, shot it from her hand.
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Sources of the original atlas Tajemná místa · page 79
This legend preserves a folk tale. Its motifs do not constitute evidence of supernatural events.