Monday, June 22, 2009

More legends of the Liar's Bridge

Kinga emailed me ( she is in one of the pictures posted below) and gave me her input on the legends of the Liar's Bridge in Sibiu. Kinga has spent a lot of time in that city. So I copied and pasted part of her message.

There are 4 legends that float around the bridge.
The first record of the bridge is from 1771 and from then on this bridge is very important to the town of Sibiu.
According to the first legend and this is the peasant legend passed on from generation to generation the bridge has magical powers and if you told a lie on it it would start to fall apart in great noise and kneel the person that told a lie literally.
According to another legend the little market place ( that we also saw ) right before you get to the bridge was a place for merchants to sell their goods. If the buyer realized that he was cheated by a merchandiser he would throw the liar off the bridge so it will be a lesson for other that come to Sibiu to sell their goods not to fool the people of Sibiu.
The most popular legend is that of the couples in love. It was told that if the girl would lie about her virginity on the bridge , after the night of the wedding her man would throw her off the bridge, of course she would not have been harmed as you saw the bridge is not that high :)))
The last legend but the one that perhaps has the most seed of truth in it sais that army man that stole the hearts of young women from Sibiu would meat with them on the bridge and promise them the sun and the moon only to let them waiting in vain the next day.

So that is about it , I don't know which one I like more, but I definitely like the idea of not lying :)

Thank you Kinga. It is very interesting.

2 comments:

Angela2932 said...

These are wonderful! Maybe I'll start calling a bridge around our town a "liar's bridge" and see if I can connect legends of my choosing to it. A liar creating a liar's bridge!

Maria said...

This goes to show you how much oral history is still out there waiting to be written down for posterity. I hope these charming stories are not lost.