One more legend about the origin of the lake
(Morske oko – Sea Eye)

Once upon a time there were free people living among primeval forest. They hunted, shepherded… But some master appeared and their life became joyless. He punished people even for the least fault.

Once a misfortune happened. The wolves attacked the sheep, so a young shepherd Ivan lost the whole flock. He decided not to wait for the master’s violence. He said “good bye” to his beloved and left his motherland to strange lands overseas …

The shepherd was homesick in the foreign country. Every night he went to the blue sea to unburden his heart and sorrow: “Oh, you, omnipotent sea, cast a glance at least by one eye on my Verchovyna, make a low bow to the native land.” And the miracle happened: suddenly the sea broke through the earth and took up the master and his servants. But the sea did not come back to its shores; it was lost in contemplation of the proud Carpathians and left there forever. Blue and clear like “eye of sea”…