I've just improved my previous article on the history of Kékkő Castle - in Hungarian, it stands for "blue stone" (Slovak: Modry Kamen).
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I have added a second legend about the castle, according to Szombathy Viktor:
"A fierce dragon rises in the Balasan coat of arms. It is a winged mythical beast, almost flying; in its right foot – one might even say in its hand – it holds a wide-bladed, curved Turkish sword. It is a sign that all the men of the Balassa family were, from the beginning, brave, warlike, valiant men of the noble line of the family, since the birth of the Comes Detre of the Hont-Pázmány clan. This Comes Detre named his son, the heir to his fortune, Balázs; the sons of Balázs became the Balázs boys, and the next generation called themselves Balassa.
Well, they had the dragon coat of arms with the sword drawn in the royal chancellery. It was rumoured in the beautiful Nógrád county that this dragon was not just a painted beast of wonder, but a real, living, winged monster.
It lived up on the top of the Vepor hill, its house was a golden cave, it ate a sheep every day, and only very rarely did it fly down to the banks of the Ipoly river to drink water. On such occasions, however, he drank half the Ipoly.
The woodcutters and the hunters avoided him; they did not dare to come near him. If he smelled man, he would gladly give up the sheep’s food, blowing a fiery flame from his nose, and with his wing beating, he would raise a wild storm; his growl was like distant thunder.
On winter evenings, when the villages were covered with snow and people preferred to sit by the warmth of their huts, these were the stories that were told when people spoke of the Balassa lords. Old Dorka was the best person to tell the story of the dragon, like this:
This dragon was a hermit dragon who was cast out into the mountains by his own family because of his temper.
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