But The Exact Legend Here Reported Is Related (As M. Pauthier Has Already
Noticed) By Wilibrand Of Oldenburg Of A Stream Under The Castle Of
Adamodana, Belonging To The Hospitallers, Near Naversa (The Ancient
Anazarbus), In Cilicia Under Taurus.
And Khanikoff was told the same
story of a lake in the district of Akhaltzike in Western Georgia, in
regard to which he explains the substance of the phenomenon as a result of
the rise of the lake's level by the melting of the snows, which often
coincides with Lent.
I may add that Moorcroft was told respecting a sacred
pond near Sir-i-Chashma, on the road from Kabul to Bamian, that the fish
in the pond were not allowed to be touched, but that they were accustomed
to desert it for the rivulet that ran through the valley regularly every
year on the day of the vernal equinox, and it was then lawful to catch
them.
Like circumstances would produce the same effect in a variety of lakes,
and I have not been able to identify the convent of St. Leonard's. Indeed
Leonard (Sant Lienard, G. T.) seems no likely name for an Armenian
Saint; and the patroness of the convent (as she is of many others in that
country) was perhaps Saint Nina, an eminent personage in the Armenian
Church, whose tomb is still a place of pilgrimage; or possibly St.
Helena, for I see that the Russian maps show a place called Elenovka
on the shores of Lake Sevan, N.E. of Erivan.
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