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Right in the place where the church stands today was once a lake, which was the home of the water man. St. Ursula was not there at that time. St. Ursula came from Croatia and first made her home on Poharica near Slovenj Gradec. Ursula did not like it there because the herders were making too much noise. She decided to move to another mountain.

On the mountain pass at St. Daniel there was a beautiful flat land overgrown with tall grass. They found the holly card of St. Ursula there one day, which meant that they should build her a church in that area. But the owner of this land was a very stingy woman and she was worried that the pilgrims will walk all over her food so she refused to let them build a church. In the morning when she got up there was a deep river-bed where the church was supposed to stand. St. Ursula was very offended and she left the area and came to the Plešivška mountain, where she kneeled on a stone and looked over the land. On the rock where she kneelt you can still see the marks of her knees today and pilgrims break off the fragile ends of the stone and take them home for a reminder and a remedy. On the buck field St. Ursula’s leg got caught in a rock. The whole is still in the rock today and pilgrims still put their feet in because they believe that if they do so, they will never have pains again. It has happened to many people that they could put the foot in, but had great difficulties getting it back out.

When St. Ursula got to the mountain which has the shape of a triangle pyramid between Slovenj Gradec,Šoštanj and Črna-Mežica she liked it very much. On the most beautiful spot on the mountain there was a lake, the home of the Water man. St. Ursula called him from the lake and told him to take his lake elsewhere, and that she would give him her current home on Poharca.

The Water man was very bored on Plešivec where he didn’t see anyone all year except the herders who always sang the same songs which he all knew by heart. There hasn’t been a female herder to at his lake for him to talk to her for over two hundred years. He was happy with the proposal of St. Ursula. But when he made her the promise to move with his lake he made the common male mistake of not thinking how easy it is to promise something to a woman and how difficult it can sometimes be to keep that promise.

Vinko Moderndorfer, Koroške narodne pripovedke.