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The sleeping knights of Czantoria and the Knights' Path Ciekawostki
The sleeping knights of Czantoria and the Knights' Path
Czantoria Wielka has a border at its summit, several explanations of its name and a legend about knights sleeping in a golden chamber. The text separates the legends from what documents confirm, and describes the two Knights' Paths on both sides of the border.
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The White Lady, the Black Dog and the treasures: legends of the castles of the Jura Ciekawostki
The White Lady, the Black Dog and the treasures: legends of the castles of the Jura
The White Lady at Ogrodzieniec, the starved voivode at Olsztyn, the devil at Ryczów and treasures that no one has ever recovered. An overview of legends about the castles of the Jura, marking what is legend and what is a documented record.
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Jasna Góra as a pilgrimage destination: on foot from Warsaw since 1711 Ciekawostki
Jasna Góra as a pilgrimage destination: on foot from Warsaw since 1711
Walking pilgrimages to Jasna Góra have a tradition of several centuries: from Warsaw in 1711, through records from Pabianice from 1468, to the Way of the Cross of the early 20th century. The text shows where these marches came from and what awaits a pilgrim beneath the monastery walls.
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Goczałkowice Lake: the dam, water for Upper Silesia and the resettled Zarzecze Ciekawostki
Goczałkowice Lake: the dam, water for Upper Silesia and the resettled Zarzecze
The reservoir on the Vistula was created in the 1950s to supply water to the Upper Silesian Industrial Region. We describe its position in relation to boundaries, its construction and the resettlements from Zarzecze, and the birds for which it is a refuge.
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Ondraszek: the man, the brigand and the hero of legends Ciekawostki
Ondraszek: the man, the brigand and the hero of legends
Ondraszek really lived: Andrzej Fuciman of Janowice was killed in an inn in Świadnów in 1715. The text separates what is known from documents from the legend of the defender of the poor, and shows where the Polish and Czech sources diverge.
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Piekary Śląskie: from the plague of 1676 to the men's pilgrimages Ciekawostki
Piekary Śląskie: from the plague of 1676 to the men's pilgrimages
The painting of Our Lady of Piekary has drawn pilgrims since the 17th century. The article tells of the vows made after a plague, the copy that replaced the original, three coronations and the men's pilgrimage on the last Sunday of May.
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Pszów: The Painting, the Basilica and the Calvary with Fourteen Chapels Ciekawostki
Pszów: The Painting, the Basilica and the Calvary with Fourteen Chapels
The image of Our Smiling Lady is a copy of the Częstochowa image, bought in 1722 and lightened by a painter from Wodzisław. The article tells how Pszów became a pilgrimage centre, how the basilica and the calvary in the forest came about, and where the indulgence festivals in September and June come from.
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Racibórz Castle: St Thomas's Chapel and the Legend of the Stone Head Ciekawostki
Racibórz Castle: St Thomas's Chapel and the Legend of the Stone Head
The Gothic chapel of St Thomas Becket in Racibórz Castle is called the pearl of Silesian Gothic. The castle is also linked with the tale of the stone head of a Mongol leader, whose eyes were said to point to a hidden treasure.
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Four Marian Shrines: Leśniów, Rychwałd, Hałcnów and Szczyrk Ciekawostki
Four Marian Shrines: Leśniów, Rychwałd, Hałcnów and Szczyrk
Leśniów, Rychwałd, Hałcnów and Szczyrk have different beginnings: a statuette by a spring, a painting from Greater Poland, a pietà from under a roadside oak and apparitions in 1894. The text separates what the sources confirm from what legend relates.
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Skarbnik, the spirit of the underground: how miners told of the guardian of the mines Ciekawostki
Skarbnik, the spirit of the underground: how miners told of the guardian of the mines
Skarbnik is the spirit of the mines known from Upper Silesian tales: protector of the hard-working and stern judge of the lazy. The article separates the legend of Rybka and Skarbnik from Tarnowskie Góry from historical records and shows where the figure lives on today.
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The Three Brothers' Well and the legend of the founding of Cieszyn Ciekawostki
The Three Brothers' Well and the legend of the founding of Cieszyn
According to the tale, three brothers, Bolko, Leszko and Cieszko, met at a spring and founded Cieszyn. Historians consider the legend to date from the 19th century, and the well itself has its own real history.
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The Pszczyna bison: the breeding that helped restore a species Ciekawostki
The Pszczyna bison: the breeding that helped restore a species
Four bison from Białowieża, brought to the Pszczyna forests in 1865, began a breeding programme that survived the First World War. When the species was being restored in Białowieża, Pszczyna still had a herd of its own.
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