Say about the Carmenna cowboy
The legend of the Carmenna cowboy comes from Arosa near the Carmennahütte .
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In earlier times, the farmers considered it a special honor to own the cow of an alp . The Heerkuh is that animal that the others in wrestling cows defeated and then the Alpabzug the other must march with a wreath of flowers on the head and the biggest bell in the neck forward. The owner of the army cow walked through the village community with such increased self-confidence that one could think that he himself was the army cow. The situation became tense whenever two female aspirants contested the rank of army cow. As was then about by a bribed by farmers herdsmen or shepherds the opponent's cow out of action set with certain agents.
So it happened again one year that one could not say with certainty which of two of the strongest cows on the Chur Alp Carmenna was which one was the army cow. One of them belonged to the herdsman himself, who had a great opinion of his cow. When the farmers had left the alp, the herdsman knew what to do to get his own cow to honor it. He talked to the cowboy in secret. At night he went into the forest below, debarked a fir tree, carried up the bark, which was still dripping with the sap, and spread it with the smooth side up over a steep slope on the Carmenna.
The next day he drove the herd there and the nefarious cows made sure that the opposing cow came naturally near the spreading bark. The magnificent animal slipped on the greasy surface and fell to its death down the steep slope. The owner was told the cow had been knocked over by another while it was wrestling.
The monster escaped a worldly judgment during his lifetime, but not the divine one. After his death he was condemned to atone for the crime in the place of his iniquity. Today the servants of the nearby Alp Urden , which does not belong to Chur, still hear a ghostly, long-lasting cheering from the Carmenna, the call of the Carmenna cowboy. Then the murdered cow rolls down the steep drop of the Carmenna Pass, the ghost cow rolls after her in mighty leaps. Where the cow is lying there, he grabs it with superhuman strength and panting and moaning he tries to carry the enormous load back up. That's his curse. If he has then completed this work in unspeakable toil, then the ghost-haunt will come to rest for a while. From the alpine servants on Urden, however, one announces it to the other: "The Carmenna-Chüjer het g'juchzet, there are other Wätter!" And in fact, a rapid sudden fall in the weather with snowfall is supposed to occur regularly .
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- "Legend hike Arosa and the surrounding area" at the Carmennahütte, with further references.