The legend of the wild man of Montiggl

One day, the wild man come down to Schreckbichl and took a pair of oxen from the neighboring farm, which he used to take stones to his hut. The farmer crept after him and saw the way this grim figure struck his oxen, in a way that aroused his pity. As he walked, he shouted: "Gee-up, get a move on!" The farmer did not dare to confront the wild man and returned home. On the following morning though, he found his oxen in their stable once again; they had got much fatter and stronger and the farmer, who had watched them working the previous day, could hardly believe his eyes. They were sweating like pigs with their layers of fat. One day some people went into Montiggl forest to collect leaves. As they came upon the hut of the wild man, of whom there had been no trace for a long time, they could no longer resist their curiosity and peered through the open door of the hut. In it they saw a pit and, since they could see no trace of the wild man, they went in and climbed down into the hole. They had scarcely made it to the bottom when the pit suddenly began to turn, making the heads of its stunned occupants spin. And the walls of the pit were not as before, but shimmered in pure gold. The curious few managed to climb out of the pit again, but once they had made it out and turned to look at the golden walls again, they saw the gold had disappeared.