--- title: Legends and Tales., part 10 — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · full text with trees description: Legends and Tales., part 10, «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: He used the formula employed to open the gates of the spirit-world, and instantly, white as a swan, rose the virgin beautiful --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/) / Legends and Tales., part 10 # Legends and Tales., part 10 Legends and Tales., part 10 of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder: the whole text, 119 sentences and 2531 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/11/page/2/) He used the formula employed to open the gates of the spirit-world, and instantly, white as a swan, rose the virgin beautiful to behold.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") "What dost thou desire?" she asked.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") The monk approached her too boldly, begging for the jewels of the depths, and she gave him such a blow with her keys that he fled in terror, and never dared to visit the place again.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") Soon after, as a shepherd was feeding his sheep on a meadow near, a blooming, quiet maiden came and gathered flowers, which she bound in a garland; approaching him, and looking kindly at him, she let a flower fall.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") He picked it up and put it in his hat-band.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") The maiden departed smiling, but beckoned him to follow her.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") Soon they reached the summit of the Güntersburg.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") They entered a subterranean passage, a door opened, and the youth beheld the wonders of the fairy-world.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") Gold and precious stones glittered in the soft starlight that illuminated the vaulted chambers.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") "Take what thou wilt," said the fairy; "but choose wisely."[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") He filled his pockets with gold and costly jewels, but in his rapid movements the flower fell from his hat.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") He looked around seeking the door and rushed out, hearing only the words, "Forget not the most beautiful treasure," and never stopped till he had reached the meadow and his sheep.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") He emptied his pockets of the precious treasures, when lo! they were worthless stones.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") Legend of the Devil's Mill.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") The summit of the Ramberg, or Victor's Höhe, is strewed with gigantic ruins of the primeval rocks, and is called the Brocken of the Unterharz.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") Two huge granite boulders, lying as if they had been placed there by hands, are the remains of the Teufelsmühle.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") At the base of the mountain, in the ages long ago, a miller possessed a windmill.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") But the mill, an inheritance from his great-great-grandfather, was in a tumble-down condition, and when the wind blew from the north or west the sweeps stood motionless, for mountain and forest intercepted the "breath of God."[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") Often the miller had sat on the summit of the mountain, and thought how nice it would be if the mill only stood there in the free, full breeze, with a strong tower, built from the materials that lay scattered around in superfluous abundance.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") Once, as he thus sat and mused in the twilight, the bats and owls just beginning their nocturnal rounds, a huge, swarthy labourer suddenly appeared before him, greeted him with a \_Gott-sei-bei-uns\![20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") \_ and told him he would build him a mill, so soon as the miller signed a promise with blood to be his in thirty years.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") Want, avarice, and vanity won the day with their unholy counsel, and the bond was signed.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") Suddenly scores of little black figures issued forth from the darkness of the night, and began to work among the rocks; trees were cut down with a stroke, chisel and hammer rang on the granite, and the work went forward with a rapidity of enchantment.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") The fear of the miller rose to despair, and as he saw the roof and the huge sweeps set up and finished, and the last millstone rolled to its place, he seized it with the power of a deadly terror, threw it from the rollers with such force, that it rolled down the mountain.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the black wings of the arch-fiend unfolded and spread themselves, he soared high in the air, let fall the millstone on the miller, who was buried beneath it and the ruins of the mill, broken to atoms.[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") The Origin of the Rammelsberg Mine, near Goslar.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") The rich treasures of the Rammelsberg were discovered in 970, according to tradition, by accident.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") Otto the Great hunted in the forest.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") His squire Ramm dismounted, tied his horse to a tree, and went after some game that had been shot.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") The impatient animal pawed and stamped, and his rider returning, found a glittering piece of silver ore laid bare.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") Another story is, that the discovery was made by a servant girl in the mill at the base of the mountain.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") She rose one morning before daybreak, and went out to gather wood, when she saw a fire burning on the mountain.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") She hurried to the spot, and found several men with white beards sitting around it.[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") Approaching them, she asked permission to take some of the burning coals to kindle her fire.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") They gave no answer, but sat motionless and gazed upon the ground.[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") At last she took some coals, saying to herself, "No answer means yes," carried them home and laid them on the hearth, but they would not burn.[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") This she repeated several times, but the coals, once thrown on the hearth refused to burn.[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") At last it became broad day, and a great heap of gold lay on the hearth, and on the spot where she had seen the fire, lay only pebbles.[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") Search was made, and the wealth of the mountain discovered.[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") A similar tradition, with slight variations, is told of the \_Burgmühle\_, or castle mill, near Aschersleben, on the Wolfsberg.[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") The tradition is quite as probable that Askanas, grandson of Noah, died on the Wolfsberg in 1964 after the Creation, having left the East a few centuries previously to escape idolatry.[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") Legend of the Hoppelberg[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") Many and mighty tribes, as the Wenden, Katten, and Sassen, once dwelt in the Harz.[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") Bloody battles have been fought for the possession of this district, whose dense forests and impassable valleys afforded not only defence, but the pleasures of the chase.[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") We find proofs of their existence here in huge mounds filled with human skulls and bones, and in the names of some of her villages, as, for example, Dorf Kattenstedt.[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") These primeval mountaineers were most disturbed by a wild and powerful monastic tribe of giant size and strength, who frequently broke into the mountains, plundered their huts, murdered children, women, and old men, and led away the strong men into slavery.[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") Sometimes they only came in small numbers, but the terror of their name went before them, and caused the inhabitants, despite their peculiar bravery, without opposition, to flee into the ravines and caves, while the enemy took possession of all they could lay hands on.[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") One called these giant people the Huns.[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") No other race possessed such immense size and terrible strength.[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") They were held to be unconquerable, and mighty magicians.[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") Nevertheless, it happened that once when a body of these giants broke into these mountains, the bravest of the inhabitants united in defence against them; clad in steel, with shield and spear, they marched to meet the advancing foe.[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") The Huns, surprised at opposition, and the sight of the huge weapons of the mountaineers, hesitated to begin the attack.[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the king of the Huns came forward and cried in scorn, "Do you fear these dwarf figures?[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") Tarry here; I alone will fight their whole army, which extends itself beyond our view.[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") As the storm-wind breaks in pieces the trees of the mountains, so shall these fall before my strong arm."[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") He seized his lance and battle-axe, hurled his javelin into the thickest ranks of the enemy, his arrow to that point where their leader stood, and stormed after them down the hill like a rock suddenly broken from the mountain's side, crushing and destroying all on his way, defending himself against the cloud of arrows that met his advance with his huge shield.[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") His followers remained on the summit of the hill, and followed with flashing eyes their hero king, that they might be ready to hasten to his aid if in danger.[57](57/ "tree and pragmatics") **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/11/page/2/) - ← previous: [Legends and Tales., part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/10/) - next →: [page 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/11/page/2/) - ↑ back to [Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/)