The oracle said:” Your daughter is going to be killed by a snake when she turns 18 years old.”
The king believed in everything the oracle said and he built a little castle in the middle of the sea in Bosphorus, which is now called Maiden's Tower.The King's daughter started to live there. He wanted to protect her from the snakes. The King sent food to the castle every day with his soldiers and this continued the same way for years.
The king was happy when his daughter turned 18 years old but he didn't expect that the oracle was going to happen. On that beautiful day, on the King's daughter's birthday, special fruit was sent to the king. There was lots of fruit that they couldn't see the snake in the basket. After the soldiers transported the basket from the mainland to the castle, the snake entered the little castle.
-Please don't tell me the snake killed the Princess…..
-Unfortunately, yes!
- And later? Tell me! Why are you here?
-When the King knew his daughter died, he was so sad and got extremely mad!
The King ordered his soldiers to kill all the snakes in Bosphorus.
While all the soldiers were trying to kill the snakes, they tried to kill me, too.But I defended myself. I blew out fire around.That made the King so crazy. He made a curse and I became a monster. After that the King put me here in Lake Van.