Bledowska Desert
Once upon a time, six or maybe even seven hundred years ago, inhabitants of Olkusz, the city nearby, discovered that there are easily reachable layers of motherload of silver and lead under their town. They started to construct mines and drifts, got wealthier and wealthier, but as we know – a human has never enough of anything, so with the years they were continuing to dig deeper and deeper beneath the ground.
They did not know that all these treasures underground actually belonged to the devils… Old Nicks got really angry that people were taking advantage of their hidden hoarded wealth. Moreover – digging deeper and deeper into the ground started to disturb the devils in their infernal home. Their residence was probably not as deep underground as humans might have been thinking…
The devils decided to do something about it… The best way was to destroy the mines, shafts, pits, and make sure that their wealth would never again be so easily accessible to humans. They sent one of their younger fellows to the Baltic seaside to collect as much sand as possible on the sandy seashore and bring it to Olkusz. The plan was to create a huge sandstorm, like those on Sahara desert, and cover all the mines and city itself with the sand.
The young devil went north, collected tones of sand to the hugest sack that could be found, and then went back south (of course using his infernal powers he was flying over Poland on his journey). He was just approaching Olkusz, but being tired on the one side and excited on the other, he did not notice the tall belfry of the church in Klucze. He hooked against it with his huge sack, punctured it and all the sand spilled out covering the fields nearby…
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