Tompos István

The hero called Both fought until the last blow against the forces sent by Maria Terezia, but he had no chance against a numerically superior army. The city was burned, he was defeated, but he lives in the Szekler consciousness as a martyr hero.

Near the fortress there is a small, but very deep lake, at the bottom of which there is a fabulous treasure, guarded by a huge, white snake.

During the Tatar siege of the Budvár Fortress, a brave archer targeted and hit the heart of the Tatar Khan. The Tatars, seeing what happened, fled, abandoning the siege.

One night, Tartod, a diabolical sorcerer and his acolytes, stole the foundation stone of the Firtos Fortress, but after the song of a cock, the sun rose and broke the spell. The wizards hid the pierced foundation stone near the Corund River, where it can be seen today. 

A clever shepherd finds incredible treasures under the Tartod fortress, defeats dragons, and saves many beautiful maids, and learns from the counsel of the fortres’s fairies: "Never believe what you see, let your mind and heart guide you! "

The road was built by the devil. Mrs. Rapson, a cunning woman, promised the devil a mountain of silver and a mountain of gold to build the road, but she deceived him, and the angry devil destroyed the enchanted road.