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The stone with a foot in the "Lithuanian Switzerland"

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The so-called “Switzerland” has a stone with a foot. It is edged, 2.17 m long, 1.63 m wide. It has a height of 1.20 m, a perimeter of 6 m. According to a legend, the foot in this stone could have been left by God, The Virgin Mary or the Devil. One legend tells us that the foot in the stone came as the devil ran back to hell. Another legend seeks to prove that the God who has stepped on this stone, has returned to heaven. In any case, the stone was soft. It allowed either God or the devil to leave their trail, a hole. These mythical functions were to serve the journeys of the gods and the dead, or to treat people with the accumulated rainwater in the pit. Rainwater was thought to treat eyes, warts, a rose and joints.