KRAVARA:

It is believed that on the second day of creation, God passed some dirt through a sieve, and used the soft dirt to make valleys so that delicate, pious people could live in them. He used the hard rocks left over inside the sieve to make the tall, barren mountains of the Kravara region: these were built to punish the sinners who would one day live in them.

LOMBOTINA:

The people of Lombotina once decided to build a massive church to meet all of the varied religious needs of the villagers. They soon ran out of the stones they were using to build the church, and everyone feared the church would remain unbuilt. On a certain Sunday, the villagers were worshiping at Aghia Paraskevi when loud rumbling noises were heard outside the church. They ran out to see a large mass of stones - pushed almost as if by the hand of a deity - tumbling down the slope of Tsonaki mountain in the direction of the unbuilt church. The miracle was attributed to St. Paraskevi.

PLATANOS:

There are stories of people in Platanos who have seen fairies and ghosts. One young woman said she was at Gioni Lakoula when she saw naked fairies, who made a circle around her and forced her to dance with them. Others say that the water at Kouritas, across from the church of Platanos, is protected by a ghost, as is the water at Brochotini, across from the church at Vonorta. The two ghosts are rivals, and fight at a place near both villages called Demonologgo (valley of the demons). They also believe that if the church bells at Platanos ring earlier than the bells at Vonorta on Easter Saturday, then many people will die in Vonorta in the coming year.

VONORTA:

There is a place called Kefalosara, meaning "a downhill path full of heads." Legend has it that many people got drunk at a festival in this location once, drew their swords, and loped off each other's heads, causing sixty heads fell to the ground. The village got the name "Fonorta" (Fonos = murder) from this incident, but with time it was altered to "Vonorta."

ARAHOVA:

A man named Fragos once passed a water fountain in the village, and stopped to drink since he was thirsty. The water was so cold that he dropped dead on the spot, and now it's called "Fragopoulos fountain." Another Arahova legend is that of a priest who went to the monastery of Simeon to preach. When he finished the services, he asked for money from the monastery heads, who refused to give it to him because he had asked for too much. He left angrily but was shot on his way out by a strange Albanian man, and fell dead upon a rock. His bloody handprint remains on the rock to this day, where it serves as a reminder to men of the church to refrain from greed.

Sitista:

The village Sitista is known today as "Grammeni Oxia" (carved tree). The legend says that a group of militant rebels and their leader once stood underneath a tree on a high cliff, when a strong wind came and blew many of the rebels off the cliff. Those who survived did so by clutching onto the lower branches of the tree. They subsequently carved the date of this incident into the tree bark as a reminder.