It is the gray tower standing on the mountain, or rather on the high coast at merge of the river of Toyma to Kama, near the city of Yelabuga. In the people this tower is called the Devil's ancient settlement and it is considered that "devils in one night put this tower".
On the Devil's ancient settlement, near a source, I lived in ancient time pustynnik-anakhoret the most strict life. Demons often confused him. Business, certainly, and didn't do without beautiful women whom demons palmed off in a cell анахорета. But анахорет it was steady in piety and the chosen way of a celibacy. And demons all lyuty stepped on the just husband with different temptations, trying to carry away it wordly pleasures. Fight against temptations became in burden to the eremite. To banish demons from itself forever, he conceived to use their force to glorification of the God's name. He offered them one of difficult conditions: to build on the mountain in one night church. Evil spirit, having been delighted to it, immediately turned to work – to get stones from an earth subsoil.
The base was removed soon, windows and doors are done, the church was almost ready, it was necessary to set up only on it a cross, but only on trouble they were sung suddenly by a rooster. As soon as the rooster opened wide a beak as devil force immediately vanished into thin air in an underworld. Behind it with a roar were tumbled down and fell down from the top part of church and the stones. The ancient settlement tower also is that church which is put by hands of devils and therefore is called as the Devil's ancient settlement. Holes within the walls of a tower in which before daws twisted nests, are traces of devil's fingers.
According to other legend, the name received the Devil's ancient settlement from the oracle snake (devil) who lived, as if in the pagan temple which was on this mountain. Ertman who has visited the Devil's ancient settlement says that the ancient settlement was in the ancient time valid the pagan temple of any pagan deity where there lived the priest, serving to the idol and prorekavshiya destiny coming to it, and that the people and possessors of this country treated it with special respect and seduced with its answers enclosed its pagan temple with high walls from stones which could receive much right there. Probably, according to Ertman, that in that time when people were occupied with a structure of walls, Tatars or other people forced to leave work and to leave.
The legend on the Ananyevsky burial ground being near Yelabuga contacts legends about the Devil's ancient settlement.
The base was removed soon, windows and doors are done, the church was almost ready, it was necessary to set up only on it a cross, but only on trouble they were sung suddenly by a rooster. As soon as the rooster opened wide a beak as devil force immediately vanished into thin air in an underworld. Behind it with a roar were tumbled down and fell down from the top part of church and the stones. The ancient settlement tower also is that church which is put by hands of devils and therefore is called as the Devil's ancient settlement. Holes within the walls of a tower in which before daws twisted nests, are traces of devil's fingers.
According to other legend, the name received the Devil's ancient settlement from the oracle snake (devil) who lived, as if in the pagan temple which was on this mountain. Ertman who has visited the Devil's ancient settlement says that the ancient settlement was in the ancient time valid the pagan temple of any pagan deity where there lived the priest, serving to the idol and prorekavshiya destiny coming to it, and that the people and possessors of this country treated it with special respect and seduced with its answers enclosed its pagan temple with high walls from stones which could receive much right there. Probably, according to Ertman, that in that time when people were occupied with a structure of walls, Tatars or other people forced to leave work and to leave.
The legend on the Ananyevsky burial ground being near Yelabuga contacts legends about the Devil's ancient settlement.
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