The legend of Plaça de les Bruixes and the Piedra de Can Rovira in Pujarnol

The two legends we present are located about the El Solei holiday home and, through a legendary walking itinerary, you can visit the two locations where these two legends happened:

Legend of the Can Rovira Stone

The Rovira Stone is a large earthy stone that contains many legends. The story goes that Can Rovira was home to very devout people who frequently prayed the rosary.

The devil, fed up with these people, decided to push a rock up the mountain so that it would crush their house. But Sant Martirià's horse prevented the rock from reaching the house, and stopped it a few metres away from it.

The marks of the devil's hooves, who is often represented with goat legs, his claws and the horseshoe of the Saint's horse, which prevented the catastrophe, have been left on this rock.

Legend of the Witches' Square in Pujarnol

The Witches' Square is located above Puigsurís, on the road to Coll de Vi and Sant Patllari (Porqueres).

The legend was recorded by Pere Alsius in 1910 and goes like this:

A lively young man with a hunchback left Banyoles, heading for the Witches' Square in Pujarnol, to adjust a bundle of firewood. After finishing the job, he heard a great commotion and discovered a lively sardana of witches, who were singing:

- Monday and Tuesday we will eat children!

The witches discovered the boy and invited him to dance. The boy added a new verse to the song, which said:

- Wednesday and Thursday we will eat eggs.

This addition was very much liked by the witches, who did not stop repeating that verse with delirium. The witches decided to thank him for this and decided to take away his hump and invite him to return to one of the parties they held in Pujarnol.

Soon the news of this event spread throughout Banyoles and neighbouring towns. Everyone congratulated the lucky young man. Another hunchback wanted to repeat the luck of the first and in high spirits he went to the Witches' Square in Pujarnol. The hunchback found the witches dancing and repeating:

- On Monday and Tuesday we will eat children. Wednesday and Thursday we will eat eggs.

The hunchback proposed a new verse to dance, which said:

- On Friday and Saturday we will prepare to celebrate Holy Easter.

The religious meaning of this verse so upset the witches that, mad and out of their minds, they threw themselves on the defenceless hunchback, beating him until he was left for dead.

One of the most evil witches went to look for the hump that had been amputated the day before from the first hunchback and welded it onto the chest of the second. The poor man returned to Banyoles with a double curve, one hump in front and one behind.