Bummerin

On the Black Tower in České Budějovice hangs Bummerin, the largest of its bells. Of its origin this legend is told. On Pig Meadow near Lišov, by Klaudy, swineherds pastured pigs. One of them was once pasturing a herd with his dog. Toward evening he drove the herd home and on the way one pig strayed. He sent the dog after it. And the dog did not return. Time passed, dusk fell over the meadow, and the animals still made no sound. At last the herdsman left the herd standing and went after them himself. He searched long, until he came back to the pasture they had left. There, to his amazement, he saw the pig furiously digging the earth and the dog leaping around it barking. The man stepped closer. In the torn soil, among roots and stones, the edge of something large and metal showed. When he cleaned it with his hands, he saw he was looking at the rim of a huge bell. He did not delay and ran to Lišov to report the find. The town council had the bell raised and brought to the little town. The people of Lišov wanted to keep it and hang it in the tower of the local church. It turned out, however, that it was too large for their tower. So they sold it to Budějovice. For it they supposedly received three small bells and so many silver twenty-kreuzer coins that they could have paved the road from Budějovice to Lišov in a single row.