The Legend of the Red Lake

The Kuruc tricked the large band of Labanc that gathered at the edge of Odorhei, and the two hills, one tall, the other smaller, bear the Hungarian name associated with this event, namely Kis- and Nagy-Csalóka.

For the happiness of her girlfriend Gyöngyvér, a giant, Hargita sacrificed her freedom: she turned Gyöngyvér into a woman to marry her young boyfriend, but the giant girl had to flee the rage of the others.

The daughters of a great lord, Klára, Dála and Ramócsa, married young shepherds. Today, the place where Dala setled is called Daia. A flower, named after the third daughter - Ramócsa’s flower (Daphne cneorum) grows at Dârju.

The Fairy Witch Firtos gave the young man she fell in love with an echanted horse with which he could come to her every night, but one day the young man fell into a ravine, and the horse turned into stone, but one that since then predicts the weather.

The waters of this spring near the Porumbenii Mari are actually the tears of Prince Csaba's niece, who is hiding from her stepmother, until a prince or a valliant knight worthy to be betrothed arrives.

Near the Liban Peak there is a lake with a strange odor, which according to local belief is an entrance to hell, which is why it’s called the Devil's Lake.

At the advice of a clairvoyant woman, Ms. Bákai, the Szeklers of Gheorgheni tricked the Tatars by putting their hats on straw bogies and placing some pots in the grass to scare the Tatars' horses, and then they defeated them.

The Sculpture of Virgin Mary in the basilica of Şumuleu-Ciuc was cut during the Turkish-Tatar invasion, but due to the miraculous power of the statue, the invaders couldn’t steal it.

In the days of the Tatar invasion, the Szeklers from Ciuc donned masks to resemble the devil, scaring them and thus defeating the invaders. The remembrance of these events is preserved at Vérkápolna - The Bloody Chapel and at Ördöglik - The Hole of the Devils.