CROATIAN NATIONAL LEGENDS, Ivana Lukač Vuković
Posters and presentations about Croatian national legends
were made by students of the 1st and 2nd grades.
Sara Rašetić, a 2nd grade hairdressing student, studied the legend about
the origin of the city of Zagreb, prepared a presentation and created a
poster. According to legend, once upon a time, on the site of today's main
square in Zagreb, there was a water source (today's Manduševac well).
The girl Manda was standing next to that spring. At that moment, a knight on
horseback passed by, who was so tired and thirsty that he only
managed to say: "Mando, honey, grab it!"
According to that saying, Zagreb and Manduševac got their name
(Manduševac from "Mando, honey", and Zagreb from "zagrabi").
PREZENTACIJA LEGENDE O NASTANKU IMENA GRADA ZAGREBA
CROATIAN NATIONAL LEGENDS
The legend about the origin of the city of Kostroma
The legend about the origin of the city of Kostroma was studied by Adrian Bilavčić,
a 2nd grade student of electrical installation. The student created a poster on the
mentioned topic.
Near Babina Greda, next to the village of Slavonski Šamac in Posavina in Slavonia,
there was a medieval fortress-castle Kostroman, of which only the legend of its
origin has been preserved, and it is related to the love idyll of a young shepherdess
and a young lord Kostromanović.
CROATIAN NATIONAL LEGENDS
THE LEGEND OF THE BLACK QUEEN
The legend of the Black Queen was studied and a presentation about it was made by
Lana Kralj, a student of the 1st grade of hairdressing. Legend has it that she
was always dressed in black, besides that she was terribly evil. She had a raven
that she adored. When she got angry or someone wronged her, she ordered the raven
to attack the man, whom he would kill with his claws and beak. As a joke, she used
to point the raven at her courtiers, but they learned to defend themselves.
It was said that when she got fed up with them, she threw her lovers from the
tower to their deaths, or released them into a cage with a boar. She enjoyed
watching the boar kill the unfortunate.
CROATIAN NATIONAL LEGENDS
The Cernica legend about Teresa and Otta
It is a love story between Tereza Kurjaković from Cernik and the elegant
imperial officer Otto Krifke from Vienna, which defied the customs and
unstoppable traditions of the time that demanded marriage with members
of the same class.
