They say that there was once a pasture where Bled Lake is today. In the daytime, it was grazed by sheep and during the night, the fairies who lived on a hill in the middle of the lake danced on it. The hill was covered by the softest grass, which was always nibbled on by the voracious sheep. The fairies asked the shepherds to put up a fence, but they only laughed. When the youngest and prettiest of the fairies tripped and cut herself on the sharp rocks while performing a fairy dance, the fairies were enraged. They called waters onto Lake Bled, which covered the meadow and created an everlasting natural “fence” around the fairy hill. Thus the meadow became a lake and the hill became an island on which fairies still dance on starry nights, according to the legend.