THE OLD WOMAN'S HEAPS


E
ast of Flori, at Kimies of Epos there is a place which is called " The old woman's heaps ". 

There are sown in the earth almost seventy really big heaps from stones by various sizes. 

The heaps have also different dimensions. 

The biggest heap has a height of 5 m. and a diameter of about 20m. 

When and why these really strange heaps built up in this desert place ? 

It's a question which is asked by every visitor


The old woman's heap


P
eople's imagination, trying to give an explanation, made the following tradition :

The old-time lived in the area a supernatural old woman. 

Probably she was trying to make mountain fields and she dug the barren land of the plateau. 

The stones from the earth, which she managed to calm down, she took up them in her apron and then she emptied them out from the cultivated land. 

Each heap was one of the old woman's heaps ". 

So by putting out the gravels from the mountain, there become the familiar "old woman's heaps" which are keeping until today.

A
ccording to tradition, it is believed that the heaps hides a treasure, but is unknown the place where this might be hidden. 

People admit that " in the front behind heap is hidden the old woman's property ". 

This so indefinite definition of the spot, for finding the treasure, it reminds us an oracle.

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