The lake formed to fulfill the curse of Eszter, a kidnapped girl from Gheorgheni. The lake swallowed the robber who wanted to oppress her. Her memory is still preserved by the fir trunks in the lake.
The hero called Both fought until the last blow against the forces sent by Maria Terezia, but he had no chance against a numerically superior army. The city was burned, he was defeated, but he lives in the Szekler consciousness as a martyr hero.
During the Tatar siege of the Budvár Fortress, a brave archer targeted and hit the heart of the Tatar Khan. The Tatars, seeing what happened, fled, abandoning the siege.
One night, Tartod, a diabolical sorcerer and his acolytes, stole the foundation stone of the Firtos Fortress, but after the song of a cock, the sun rose and broke the spell. The wizards hid the pierced foundation stone near the Corund River, where it can be seen today.
A clever shepherd finds incredible treasures under the Tartod fortress, defeats dragons, and saves many beautiful maids, and learns from the counsel of the fortres’s fairies: "Never believe what you see, let your mind and heart guide you! "
The road was built by the devil. Mrs. Rapson, a cunning woman, promised the devil a mountain of silver and a mountain of gold to build the road, but she deceived him, and the angry devil destroyed the enchanted road.
