Giantess of Crngrob

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A young giantess who lived in the forests of Crngrob and worked as a shepherdess, grazing her flock by the Selca Sora River. She took pity on exhausted serfs building a church and helped them by carrying huge stones in her apron and fetching water from the Sava River in a large bucket. She worked so hard helping the serfs that she caught a cold, fell ill, and died, after which the grateful serfs buried her in the forests and hung one of her ribs in the church as a memorial.

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“According to legend, this is the rib of the giantess. The ancestors of the local population came from what is now Germany.”

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