Begging spirit. Sage
The legend of the beggar spirit is told as follows:
After the pious forest brothers, nuns moved into the monastery building at St. Magdalena, but not all of them were pious and kind.
One day, a poor salt miner came to the monastery gate and asked for alms for his hungry children. Disgruntled, the gatekeeper handed him a piece of rock-hard bread. The poor man was seized with rage and shouted: "You can eat this beggar yourself, you miser!" And with a powerful throw, he hurled the bread against the rock face. However, bread - whether hard or soft - is a gift from God that must be handled with care. That's why the nun was horrified by this act. She cried out: "You must atone for this. You will not find peace in the grave. Your spirit will have to wander restlessly in this valley."
And so it came to pass. The man has never been seen since. He wanders back and forth invisibly in the rock faces of the Halltal valley. In winter he kicks up avalanches of dust, in summer he loosens mudflows from the brittle rock. On warm foehn days, you can hear its howling and raging from the crevices in the rocks.
But the nun's stinginess was also punished. An earthquake in 1670 severely damaged the monastery building and 19 years later it was completely destroyed by another earthquake. The rugged, steep rock against which the salt miner had thrown the hard bread, the "Bettel", was called the "Bettelwurf" by the people.
