The story of how Wood Goblin and Water-Sprite couldn't share a mountain

In XIX at the outskirts of Minsk, near Kosharskaya street (modern Krasnoarmeyskaya)  there was a forest with an interesting legend about it. At the foot of one of its hills there was a boulder named "Dzed". Wood Goblin and Water-Sprite argued whom that place belonged to. They decided to arrange a contest, that one who could bring a huge boulder to the top of the mountain would be an absolute proprietor. First attempt belonged to Water-Sprite, he loaded the stone on his shoulders, groaned, made several dozns of steps and stopped. Wood Goblin turned out stronger, having took the boulder he quickly went uphill. Water-Spirte understood that he was losing and decided to swindle with a backheel. Wood Goblin stumbled, the boulder fell and immediately grew into ground. A well struck and a giant oak grew near it.  And soon people arranged a pagan heathen near it.

The most curious thing in the story is that it has absolutely real continuation (and a separate page will be devoted to it at this site). Last pagan priests of the heathen, father and son Sevastey, were still alive at the beginning of XX century. And a pagan heathen in Minsk really existed. Orthodox priests complained then about townswomen, they said: in day they go to a church and in evening "turn into" heathens. By the legend the stone helped sterile women.

The heathen was destroyed at the beginning of XX century. Older priest Sevastey died and his son was repressed in 1927. The oak was cut and the well was covered up with earth. But the stone lied. Later it was transported to Museum of Boulders which is in Uruchye district. 

Translated by Ekaterina Ludvigovna Prokopovich, Odessa