CYPRUS THE ISLAND OF LEGENDS – THE MOTHER DAUGHTER LEGEND:
CYPRUS THE ISLAND OF LEGENDS – THE MOTHER DAUGHTER LEGEND:
There once was a village called Atyaş Vasili in an epoch long ago. The gardens and land of the village belonged to one rich person that may people worked for. That rich landowner didn’t give his labourers bread and equally wasted bread and food. He would never give the food to any one else, claiming the ingredients were stale and he would throw them away. This person, who was so merciless with people and blessings they had , was in actual fact a mother and her daughter.
After some time her daughter gave birth. Naturally the squadering contiued. Because they had a lot of wheat and flour, their bread was plentiful. In those days villagers made pita bread to eat with their meals. The starving and improverished labourers who were close to dying from starvation continued to work. She would almost curse as she gave a small piece of bread to them. Because of the disposition she possessed, the labourers and the people that lived in the surrounding area would say, “one day God will replay her”. One day the rich woman, her daughter and her grandchild went to the labourers, to the legndary area where the rocks stand now. She began to shout again at the labrourers urging them to work harder. The small grandchild excreated faeces on himself. It was at that instant it all began to happen. On her daughter saying, “what are we to do? What are we going to use to wipe it with?” the rich woman pulls out a pita bread from her leather bag ad tries to stone on the disrespect they had shown to his blessings.”
Many people of the Alevkayası-Kalavaç area strongly believe in this legend. They belive that those who betray their blessings will be punished by the God. The children of this area are brought up according to this elief. If a child drop a piece of bread, they take the bread , kiss it and put it somewhere where it won’t be stepped upon. This is because they fear that God will “burn them and turn them into stone”.