Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1901 — Legend of a Spring. [ARTICLE]

Legend of a Spring.

Swimming about In a large marhlelined tank in a small church Just outalde Constantinople are to be seen a number of fishes, brown on one side and white on the other. These, it l&

■aid, are the descendants of the ones that gave the name “Balukli" (place of fishes) to the church. The legend Is as follows: At the time of the invasion of Constantinople by the Turks, a monk was cooking fish near a spring of water, where the little church now stands, when a messenger rode up In haste, announcing “The city is taken!” Discrediting the story, the monk declared that he would sooner believe that the half-cooked fish before him would jump back Into the water. As he spoke, the fish, sd the story goes, did actually leap from the pan Into the spring, Ever since that time the waters have been regarded as curative, and once every year pilgrimages are made to It by sufferers from various ailments.