All legends," Inese Berzina says, "have real events behind them." And Berzina knows them all.Berzina is a Latvian tourism official in Mazsalaca, a small town near Valmiera, about 125 kilometers from Riga. She knows every story behind the town's 27 cherished legends inside out.For example, there's the story of Saletsa, daughter of a rich baron who once lived in the rural Latvian countryside. Saletsa, Berzina explains, would secretly rendezvous with her lover on the estate grounds when her father was not around. But when the baron found out, he was so angry that he banged his walking staff ag...
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