1. Primary School of Viliam Záborský, Vráble, Slovakia
Made for Comenius program:
Wandering through the History and Culture of Europe.
Legends and tales

2. *In this presentation you will have chance to
know some of our legends connected with
our castles and heroes.
*We think that the most important for
Slovakia is the legend about Juro Jánošík.

3. The legend of King
Svatopluk´s three rods 1
The King Svatopluk wanted to see his three sons
before the death. He gave each of them a twig and
ordered them to break it. Young men have done it
very easily.
Then the king gave all three tied
twigs and again he said them to
break a bunch of twigs.
This task was much
more difficult.

4. The legend of King
Svätopluk three rods 2
*This way he showed them how important the
unity is.
* After the death of Svätopluk in 894, his sons
shared Great Moravia.
*A Hungarian invasion in 907
has ended its existence.

5. Children´s Paintings
Pribina

6. *Bebek lived with his wife and kids in the region called
Gemer. He was a shepherd of the sheep. They were
poor. One day Bebek with the sheep were in the meadow
and saw a big stone on the road.
* When he threw it away, he found money underneath.
Then he saw that the stone fluoresces. He took him to
the king. They found there that it is a diamond.
* The king gave him money and built 7 sheep-folds for
him. But really they were 7 castles and Krásna Hôrka
was one of them.
The legend of the castle
called Krásna Hôrka

7. Krásna Hôrka – pictures and paintings

8. The well of love - TrenČín castle
One of the oldest but also the most beautiful Slovak
legend is about Omar, Fatima and the Well of Love.
It is famous and connected with the Trenčín Castle.
It talks about love of the Turkish pasha Omar and the
beautiful girl Fatima.
Fatima was the captive
of the monarch Stephen
Zápoľský at this castle.
Omar had to dig the well in
the rock when he wanted to save her.
With the words : „Zápoľský, you have the water, but
not the heart“ he took Fatima back home.

9. The well of love
*Pictures and paintings

10. LEGEND of Beckov Castle
* According to the legend, Ctibor built this castle for
his clown Becko .
*One day when Ctibor was very sad,
only clown Becko could cheer him.
*Ctibor kept his word and built the castle.
*When the castle was finished
he liked it so much that he wanted
to have it as a residence.
*Becko sold him the castle then.
*It was the most unconquerable
castle in that time.
*It stands on the very high rock.

11. Bojnice: Legend about the
black lady
*A lord with his wife lived in Bojnice castle. She was as good as an
angel. She liked to help people.
*Young lord had to leave to the war. When he came back, bad people
lied to him-his lady was amusing all nights with unknown knights.
His wife was innocent and she was sentenced.
*The verdict: A young lady with her baby,
who was born after the husband went
to the war, had to jump off
Huňady´s tower to the stone dike.
* If she was innocent nothing should
happen to them and when she
transgressed their life should end.

12. *And it happened. A young lady together with
her little baby in her arms jumped into depth.
*Instead of the fall, the castle lady with her
baby flew high up to the sky.
*Heartsore castle lord left to the monastery
forever. Since then you can hear strange voices
from Huňady´s tower.

13. Legend -JuraJ Jánošík 1
*The most important Slovak hero is Juraj Jánošík, a
legendary outlaw and the Slovak Robin Hood.
*Jánošík was born in a little village Terchová in Malá
Fatra.
*It was 300 years ago. He didn´t like oppression and
inequity.
*He wanted to help poor people.
*He became a captain of outlaw
group, when he was 23 years old.
* According to the legend,
he robbed nobles and gave the loot
to the poor.

14. Jánošík had incredible strength thank to the
miraculous things that he received from fairies .
*It was VALAŠKA - a kind of axe, but smaller and
lighter - very sharp and fast and it was able to cut
without help.
*WHITE SHIRT resistant from bullets and swords.
*Then it was his MAGIC BELT which made him strong
and immortal.
*Juro’s special HAIRDO which was made by fairies –
a power of three strong men was hidden in the
braids.
Legend about JuraJ Jánošík 2

15. *According to a widespread legend, he was
caught after slipping on peas, thrown in his
way by an old woman in the pub.
*Jánošík was imprisoned in Liptovský Mikuláš.

16. *The way of his execution became part of his
modern legend.
*A hook was pierced through his left side and he was
left dangling on the gallows to die.
*A legend says that he refused the grace offered in
exchange for enlisting soldiers of his abilities with
the words: "If you have baked me so you should
also eat me!"
and jumped on the hook.
*The statue of Juraj Jánošík
is the part of his monument
in Terchová.

17. Thank you for your interest
Pupils of Comenius Club
Základná škola Viliama Záborského Vráble Slovakia

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