They say that the steps that descend to Valea-Adynca** were washed and dug in the earth by Ruxanda`s tears. Where her tears fell a spring gushed out of the earth, then a well was made there and people call it now “The Well of the Princess.”

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* Ruxanda – the daughter of Vasile Lupu, king of Moldavia. She was married to Timush, the son of Bogdan Hmelnitsky.