You can see it if, in the evening or at night, you find yourself among the ruins of the old Gothic castle in Ogrodzieniec, once built among the jagged and strangely shaped limestone rocks of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland.
This dog, much larger than an ordinary, even enormous, dog, drags behind it a long, clanging chain, its eyes are burning, its fur is pitch black.
An old legend has it that this is how Castellan Stanisław Warszycki endures eternal punishment. This cruel lord created a cave here, in the castle's outer courtyard, known as "Warszycki's Torment," where he tortured his unwilling subjects. He treated his servants and even his household with equal cruelty. He reportedly even sentenced his own wife to a public flogging.
A ghostly dog guards the treasures that Warszycki hid in the castle's basement before the Swedish invasion. Most of these riches were to be paid to Castellan Męciński, who married his daughter from his first marriage, Barbara. However, the dowry never reached the Męciński family. When, after Warszycki's death, the family searched the chambers where the treasures seemed to be, not a single thaler was found. Perhaps the Castellan, fearing the castle would be plundered by invaders, hid his treasures deep in the dungeons.
Most of the cellars carved into the limestone rocks beneath the castle were blown up before the siege to prevent Swedish attacks. Perhaps the castellan, in the form of a black dog, guards the hidden treasures?
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