The legend of the raven
The legend of well
It is said that three Turkish prisoners that Ioan of Hunedoara kept in the castle dug this well. Ioan promised them that he would set them free if they will dig a well. The prisoners, animated by the hope of freedom, dug for 15 years and at 28 meters deep they found the precious water. But in the meantime Ioan Corvin died and his wife, Elisabeth Szilagyi,
decided to not respect the word she was given to her husband and doesn’t award the promised freedom to the three prisoners. Prisoners decide to write on a cliff block the message “You have water but no heart” trying this way to revenge the lack of word from the family side. Actually, the inscription deciphered by Mihail Guboglu says: “Hassan, prisoner to the giaours in the fortress next to the church, dug here”. The Arabian characters of inscription place it in the 15th century. Nowadays the inscription is on one of the buttresses of the chapel.