Picok - The legend of the roosters (Đurđevac)
The legend dates back to the time of the Turkish invasions on the
Đurđevac fortress.
When Ulama-beg encountered unexpected
resistance and was unable to defeat the Đurđevac soldiers, he decided
instead to siege...
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Picok - The legend of the roosters (Đurđevac)
The legend dates back to the time of the Turkish invasions on the
Đurđevac fortress.
When Ulama-beg encountered unexpected
resistance and was unable to defeat the Đurđevac soldiers, he decided
instead to siege the town, in order to starve the army and the
population.
He might have succeeded, but the wise and clever people
of Đurđevac outwitted him.
How? Legend has it that food quickly ran out in the encircled fortress
and both the army and population were hungry, but only one little
rooster remained (called pev
ec, picek, picok in the Đurđevac dialect); as the only "bite" left, it
could not feed the people.
The helpless situation forced the people to
consider various options to save themselves, but one old woman
proposed that the captain of the town put the rooster in the cannon and
fire it at the Turkish camp, which they did.
Thinking that the town still had so much food that they could fire
roosters from cannons and mock them in that
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