Talk:Hejnał mariacki

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[edit] Accuracy of tradition

The web page [1] claims that it is an invented tradition, coming from a childrens' book. He also gives sources. -- ZZ 21:11, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Complementary legend in Uzbekistan

I hope one day to find a reliable source for this. I've read that during World War II, Polish soldiers who had been held prisoner in Stalin's regime found themselves in Uzbekistan. The local people there were excited to meet soldiers from this ancient land they knew as Lechistan. The asked if the Poles had a city where a trumpet is played from one of their places of worship. They asked if the Poles had a trumpeter among them, and would that trumpeter play the tune in their own city square.

It turned out that the Uzbeks had a legend of their own. They had been part of the Mongol invasion, and it was one of their own who shot and killed the trumpeter. Since they had killed a man in an act of prayer, they believed they would never be free until a trumpeter of Lechistan came and played the tune in their own city.

My father, a Pole in Warsaw through the war, tells me he heard the story when it came back AT THAT TIME. That certainly suggests that there's more to the legend than Eric Kelly's invention, or conflation of two traditions. 140.147.160.78 18:48, 21 September 2007 (UTC)Stephen Kosciesza