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The legend of Lech, Czech and Rus.

POLISH LEGEND

Long ago, the tribes of the Slavs lived in distant lands. They lived in prosperity and in harmony with each other. At the head of the three largest and most powerful families were three brothers: Lech, Czech and Rus. The people rejoiced at the great wisdom of their leaders. Unfortunately, as the population grew, there was a shortage of grains from nearby fields, game in forests and fish in rivers. People began to fear hunger. The brothers noticed this problem and decided to consult what could be done about it. They talked for a long time, and finally decided to look for new lands for their families.

The next day they called their families and friends and announced what they had decided. At first, people didn't like the brothers' idea, but they trusted in their wisdom. The families spent the next few days preparing for the expedition. The day they left their homes finally came. Warriors rode at the front and rear to ensure the safety of the elderly, women, and children. The road was hard. Sometimes it was necessary to cross rushing rivers, sometimes to chase away attacking packs of wolves. Sometimes travelers had to wade through dense forests with mysterious creatures lurking in the darkness.

However, the Slavs trusted their leaders Lech, Chekh and Rus.

After long journeys, first Rus told the brothers that he was staying where they were. Then the Czech said goodbye to his brother and decided to settle a new land. Lech traveled for a long time. After many days, Lech looked around the area. He saw rivers full of fish, forests full of game and lands no less fertile than those of Czech and Rus. He looked at his people, saw their weariness from the constant journey, and said that their journey was over.

People rejoiced because they were already very tired, but they wanted the deities to give them a sign that this was in fact the end of their journey. At this point, from somewhere above, there was a loud shout. The Slavs raised their heads to see where it was coming from and saw a great white eagle landing in a nest on top of a huge oak tree. The view was breathtaking. The white of the bird's feathers stood out beautifully against the red sky and the setting sun. Nobody doubted that this was the sign they were waiting for. They built a castle here and this is where the history of Poland began.

Legend comics

"About Lech, Czech and Rus"

created by class 2a

Publiczna Szkoła Podstawowa Nr 4

w Strzelcach Opolskich

MICHAŁ

TYMEK

WOJTEK

AGATA

KALINA

AGNIESZKA

TOMEK

SZYMON

BRUNO

ANTEK

KAMIL

OLA

JANA

ARTUR

ALAN

PUBLICZNA SZKOŁA PODSTAWOWA NR 4

IM.J. KORCZAKA W STRZELCACH OP./ 3A

Long ago, in the place of today's tenement houses of the Old Town, there was a forest and a spring with a stream. A mermaid lived in the waters of the river, she was beautiful and sang wonderfully. When fishermen Szymon and Mateusz noticed her, she charmed them with her singing and appearance. So they went to the hermit Barnabas, asking what to do with the mermaid.

WARSAW MERMAID- POLISH LEGEND

MACIEK OLIWIA G.

The latter advised the young men to catch the mermaid in the net and give the prince in Czersk to sing for him at the castle. Szymon and Mateusz managed to catch the mermaid in the net and locked it in the cowshed for the night. Shepherd Staszek was supposed to watch over her at that time. However, the siren charmed him with her singing and persuaded him to untie it. When Staszek did it, the mermaid, jumping on her tail, reached the Vistula and jumped into the river. Staszek jumped in with her.

In the place where there was a fishing village, Warsaw was founded, which in memory of this legend has a mermaid in its coat of arms.

OLIWIA

ZOSIA

JULIA

PUBLICZNA SZKOŁA PODSTAWOWA NR 4

W STRZELCACH OP.

KLASA 3A

Cooperation with class VI A

Shah-i Meran (Shahmaran) The snakes living in the province of Tarsus in the Mediterranean Region were called Meran. These serpents, living in peace, were intelligent and affectionate, and their queen was called Shahmaran. The upper part of Shahmaran's body was a beautiful woman, and the lower part of her body was shaped like a snake.

Cemşab, the first person to see him, was the son of a poor family that sold wood. Cemşab wants to extract honey from a cave with his friends, but his friends leave Cemşab in the cave to get more honey. When Cemşab noticed a light leaking hole in the cave, he enlarged this hole with his knife and saw a beautiful garden. This garden has unique flowers, a pool and many snakes. Cemşab, who has lived here for years, gains the trust of Shahmaran, but misses his family and says that Shahmaran will let him go, provided that he does not tell anyone about his place.

Shah-i Meran (Shahmaran)

Cemşab does not tell anyone about the location of Şahmeran until the sultan gets sick. When the vizier tells that the sultan should eat the flesh of Shahmaran in order for the sultan to recover, he shows Cemşab Şahmeran's location and, seeing that Cemşab is actually sad, Şahmeran tells him to boil him and make him drink his water and feed his meat to the sultan.

The vizier dies and the recovered sultan makes Cemşab his vizier. According to the legend, it is rumored that the snakes, who do not know that Shahmaran was killed, will invade Tarsus when they learn about it.

According to a rumor, Cemşab, who obtained a lot of information about medical science from Şahmeran, is actually Lokman Hekim.

Prepared:Fatma Akıncı / Vali Mustafa UYgur Primary School 3/B Classroom

Meryem

Rabia

BEYRA

ERVA

BERİL

A long time ago, before the Slavic tribes joined Mieszko 1 there was a city ruled by King Krak. His daughter's name was Wanda. The people living in the castle were happy until the dragon appeared in the area and decided to feed on the people living in the castle.

POLISH LEGEND ABOUT THE WAWEL DRAGON- PSP4 STRZELCE OP./3A

The people were terrified, afraid to leave their homes, and King Krak also lost knights who wanted to defeat the dragon. There was also a shoemaker in Kraków who thought a lot about the dragon. He thought that he would make a sheepskin puppet with sulfur and stones in it.

Szewczyk left the "sheep" prepared in this way in front of the cave where the dragon lived. The dragon ate the sheep without thinking. Then, when the sulfur from the inside started to burn him, he started drinking water from the Vistula and he could not control himself.

He drank, drank, and drank water until it burst. The people were very happy that they managed to kill the dragon and will be safe from now on. King Krak in gratitude to the shoemaker promised his daughter Wanda for a wife. Wanda agreed to be the wife of a shoemaker, so a great wedding was organized. Everyone was very happy and there is an empty dragon cavity in Krakow that you can visit.

ALA

CEZARY

WIKTOR

ZOSIA

PSP4 STRZELCE OP.

The legend of Rozafa castle (Albanian legend)

Once upon a time, there were three brothers married to three beautiful wives who lived in northern Albania. The three brothers worked very hard, day and night, to build a castle to protect their town, but every time they finished the work, the castle’s walls would fall down. They didn’t know why. One day, they met an old man who told them that there was only one way to keep the castle walls from tumbling down: a sacrifice. The sacrifice consisted of burying one of the wives in the wall of the castle, particularly, the first wife to bring lunch to her husband the next day. The brothers promised, for the good of the castle and town, not to say anything about the sacrifice to their wives, but the two older brothers, once at home, explained the situation to their wives. While the youngest brother said nothing to his wife. The day after, the three brothers waited anxiously for lunchtime. The wives of the older brothers didn’t come with lunch, but Rozafa, the wife of the youngest brother, came with her box full of delicacies. Rozafa’s husband explained to her that she had to be sacrificed and buried in the walls of the castle in order for the castle to be finished. Rozafa didn’t protest. She accepted her fate, but under one condition: the brothers would leave a hole for her right breast so her newborn son could feed, another hole for her right hand to caress him and a third hole for her right foot to move his cradle. The castle never collapsed.

The legend of Rozafa is about the strength of women who sacrifice their lives for something bigger.

(Mirela Pashollari, Albania)

The legend of Rozafa castle

Legend about Tbilisi

Mariana Peradze

LEPL David Kakiashvili Khashuri N2

Public School

•Many people describe Tbilisi as the city of kindness in the far east of Europe.

Our great king Vakhtang Gorgasali once hunted in the forests near Mtskheta, the first capital of Georgia. By the way, Mtskheta was the capital city for 800 years before they moved it to Tbilisi. So, while he was hunting, he saw a pheasant and killed it. After a shoot, he sent a falcon to find the prey, which was also lost. The king started to search for birds, and he found them dead in hot water. Gorgasali was shocked when he found this natural source and decided to found a city there, as he liked the location very much.

GORGASALI'S LEGEND

•The place where King Vakhtang Gorgasali, according to the legend, found hot springs and ordered the construction of Tbilisi there, still has healing baths and it is called Abanotunani. There were 65 mineral water baths in Tbilisi. Information on the baths of Tbilisi is provided in XIII-XIV centuries. Venetian traveler Marco Polo, XVIII c. Russian merchant Vasil Gagara, as well as Vakhushti Bagrationi, who counts six baths in Tbilisi.

ABANOTUNANI

Mariana Peradze

LEPL David Kakiashvili Khashuri N2

Public School

KARACADAĞ EJDERHASI EFSANESİ

NURSEL AKŞİT GEZGİN

CEMİL ÖZGÜR İLKOKULU/ SUR

THE LEGEND OF THE KARACADAG DRAGON

Etrafı tarihi surlarla kaplı Diyarbakır’a Urfa istikametinden gidenler Karacadağ’dan geçerler. Karacadağ o yörenin en yüksek yerlerinden biridir. Taşları kapkaradır. Toprağı bile siyaha yakındır.
Bu dağa neden Karacadağ denildiği ve taşlarının renginin kara olduğu sorulduğunda yörede şu efsaneyi anlatırlar:

Diyarbakır Beyi’nin çok güzel bir kızı varmış. Bey’in kızının güzelliği dillere destanmış. Bey’in her işi yerli yerinde, merhameti bol, sevgisi çokmuş. Ancak o yörede bir dağ varmış. O dağda bir ejderha yaşarmış. Her yıl yüzlerce insanı yermiş ejderha. Bey ne kadar adam göndermişse de baş edememiş ejderha ile. Başına keselerce altın koymuş. Nice yiğit düşmüş peşine ejderhanın, ancak kimse ejderha ile baş edememiş.

Bey’in bir oğlu varmış, yiğit mi yiğit. En sonunda o düşmüş ejderhanın peşine. Dağa gitmiş, bir daha dönmemiş. Bir süre sonrada ejderhanın delikanlıyı öldürdüğünü öğrenmişler. Bey günlerce yas tutmuş. Eh ölenle ölünmezmiş. Bir süre sonra yine şehirdeki işlerine dönmüş.

Bey’in yanında çalışan bir delikanlı varmış. Marangozluk işlerini yapan bu delikanlı işinin uzmanı, elleri hünerli imiş. Her gören onun ellerinin hünerine hayran kalır, yaptıkları aletleri eşyaları hayranlıkla izlermiş.
Delikanlı günün birinde konakta pencere yaparken Bey’in kızını görmüş. Kız sanki bir ay parçası. Yüzü hiç hüzün görmemiş. Yanakları al al, hep gülüyor.
O günden sonra delikanlının gözü Bey’in kızından başka bir şey görmez olmuş. Ne yana dönmüşse Bey’in kızını görmüş. Ne iş yapmışsa Bey’in kızının aşkına yapmış.

Kimse ile görüşmez, kimse ile konuşmaz olmuş. Öyle ki annesi ile günlerce tek kelime konuşmamış.
Bir akşam annesi oğluna;
“Oğlum ne oldu sana böyle? Sen hep gülerdin, herkesle konuşur şakalaşırdın. Bu halin nedir?” diye sormuş.
“Hiç sorma ana…” demiş delikanlı. “Bana olanlar oldu.”
Annesi çok üsteleyince açıklamış delikanlı derdini.

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