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![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 699 W: 111 N: 1578]](http://i1.treknature.com/misc/g-g-g.gif) (4688) | Another shot from Macedonia. Radek (cicindela) recently posted two photos from this place. You can see those photos and read notes here and here. You can see Radek in my WS photo here.
Kuklica is situated only a few kilometres from the town of Kratovo. The figures have been created in the past fifty thousand years by natural erosion of the porous volcanic rocks.
These stone figures are the guardians of the legend called “the Wedding in Stone”. The legend says that a long time ago a young man from the village of Kuklica could not decide on whether he should marry the girl from the higher part of the village, or the girl from the lower part of the village, so he arranged to marry them both in the same day. When one of the maidens saw her husband to- be with another woman as his bride-to-be, she cursed everybody saying: “I pray to God to turn me into stone and that all of you turn into stone along with me!”And that is what happened: the newly-weds, along with all the wedding guests and the
musicians, turned into stone.
According to another legend, the existence of the stone figures is very different. There used to be a forest in this area, but due to wars it was burned down. Soon the area became a wasteland. The temperatures were very low and when the army passed through the wasteland, all of the soldiers turned into rocks.
(source: http://www.stonedolls.com.mk/ & http://adventureguidemacedonia.com) |
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