For their wanton behaviour however, the farmers were banished onto the Scheffauer peaks and, to atone for their sins, they were condemned to play bowls as long as the Kaiser mountain exists.

Their bowling alley can be found just below the peak of the Scheffauer in a small corrie which is covered with a fine carpet of moss.

Even on the solemn festival of Corpus Christi they argued the entire day, which then ended in an unseemly scuffle.

Bright and early the very next day, the dairymaid for the farmers, a very proper, sober woman who had long found the argument quite absurd, set off across the meadow to milk the cows and saw a small puddle of water in front of the house, which had never been there before.

She milked them quickly so as to get back to the farm and get on with her work, but when she walked up out of the dip, she was confronted with a lake where only the tip of just one house peeked out of the water.