Prządki

Prządki (meaning "the spinners") have attracted attention since time immemorial, above all for the bizarre shape of the rocks themselves. Their strange contours, full of hollows, fissures and rounded, squat boulders, resemble hunched human figures turned to stone — which is why folk imagination wove romantic legends around them.

One legend tells of two sisters who, instead of attending the Easter Resurrection Mass, locked themselves in a room to finish spinning thread for their wedding dresses. When their mother found out, she cried in anger: "May you turn to stone as punishment, wicked daughters!" — and both daughters, along with their mother, turned into boulders.

Another legend tells of three daughters of the castle lord who rode out at night looking for a hunting party and stumbled upon a robbers' camp instead. Fleeing the chase, they were saved by a sorcerer who turned them into stone. Strange moans are said to still be heard at the site at night.

Source: Gminny Ośrodek Kultury w Korczynie