Szamár-kút - Szamár-kút

Because I live here.

The water cannot be written

The well has a very long history. To do this, we have to go back to the Turkish era to get to know the folklore. The lord of the area was Ali Basa. Once, the head bass repatriated Ali's bass to Turkey because word of his arrest had reached him. Ali knew that the headmistress really loved gold money. He was determined not to take his gold home, but to hide it somewhere around here to see if he could ever come back for them. He exclaimed that the place where most people would go would be the least suspicious. Ali then stuffed the skin of the dead donkey. He cut up the donkey's belly and quickly sewed in all his treasures. He then carried it over the spring to a wide stone pedestal. The next day, the basa set off for Turkey, but on the way he was attacked by a robber. He also robbed and took away his writings. Among them was one about the stuffed donkey. Years later, a Turk was visiting here in Pécsbánya looking for a stuffed donkey at a spring. The locals showed him the donkey at the source. Crying, he asked the judge to sell him the donkey because the unfortunate one he had had was the last memory of his uncle. Because they didn’t like the bastard, they accepted the offer and gave it to him for the price of a donkey skin. Soon a letter arrived stating: You Hungarians, you are bigger donkeys than the stuffed donkey was because its belly was full of gold! The locals toppled the stone foundation in anger and led the spring to the other side of the road. The blacksmith, who was most opposed to selling the stuffed donkey, made the spout for the new spring in the shape of a donkey head. All this would have been forgotten long ago if the name of the Donkey Well had not remained a herald.