Crimean Legend - Stones in the valley of Kacha

There lived a girl in a village, her name was Zyuleika. She had everithing: she was beautiful, kind-hearted, and clear minded. Zyuleika lived with her mother, a poor widow. Terrible Topal-bey lived in the valley not far from Zyuleika. But he was fearful by anything exept his two sons. They were lazy, greedy and evil. All around trembled with fear. The brothers scored villages during dark nights, burst in settler's houses, took everithing expensive with themselves, took away the girls. And none of them went out alive from Topal-bey's castle.

When brothers were going from hunting across Zyuleika's village they saw her and everyone desided: she would be mine. The brothers got furious, rushed on each other, but stopped in time. And one said to the other: who would catch her the first, then she would belong to him.

And they both came to girl's village. They came to Zyuleika's cabin. There were no men, who could defend the girl. Zyuleika heard as someone was climbing the window. She cried the mother and ran out the door. She was running along the road, and the mother behind her. The brothers were near, they were behind the back, they catch at once, draging and tearing the girl from two sides. She cried:

- I don't want to be at the hands of evil man. Let me lie as a stone on a road. And you, damned, harden into stones for your harm!

The girl had the strong word. She began to grow in, to became a stone. And two brothers lied by cliffs' fragments near her.

The mother ran up, saw Zyuleika's and beast-brothers' dressing in stones, she said:

- I want to watch at this stone all the life, to see my daughter.

And the mother had such strong word, that she fell down the ground and also became the stone.

And since that time they have been staying in the valley of Katcha's river, not far from Bakhchisarai.

Topal-bey - a limping bey;

Bey - a duke, a member of nobility.