Mushroom rocks of the 'Fragment of the Head of Woman'

Alvienova | Mushroom rocks of the 'Fragment of the Head of Woman' |  Local legend says that the giant stone mushroom Buy Plast is actually a fourth embodiment of a decapitated woman's head. They were beheaded for trying to escape from a chasing some people oppressors. As punishment they were beheaded and their heads like petrified mushrooms that look to the present.

Of course, the truth is sometimes stranger than fiction and the origins of the existing. Rock formations typical Bulgarian folklore is actually doesn't has background of mystical-sounding story so far. This strange rock formations are nothing but the result of rock weathering that occurred several thousand years ago. So in conclusion, these rocks occur as a natural occurrence and has nothing to do with the mushrooms and the beheading incident was the result of human imagination.

Fungi which have the largest rock measuring more than three feet high. They are made of limestone eroded by the water of the lake that surrounds it. In the head that is not eroded mushroom rock is the point where the borders of the lake to drown these rocks. Water has never been higher than that point. After the water receded, it formed mushroom rock that looks permanent. The stones in the Buy Plast is a sign that formerly contained a lake that disappeared around it.

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