Legend: (legend comes from the second half of the 17th century)

Ptacov's mill wasn't great, but enough peasants rode there to grinding grain. They waiting in the mill than they will be in order. Also wayfarers skilled as miller's craft were walking to the mill. At a time when the Ptacov's mill served a young girl, stopped here wayfarer, violent and impulsive young man. Fell in love with the girl, who relish with him a lot of and he strive for her love. The girl however didn‘t return his feelings and refused to associate with him. In the wayfarer heart grew an anger, his violent nature was thinking about revenge.
Once time happend that the peasants were waiting for a corn be milled had nothing to a drink, so he miller called the maid and told her to took a pitcher and went to Hostakov because of beer. Wayfarer heard the miller's command and in the spirit prepared plans to would carry it out. When she left, he went secretly to the woods above the mill and was waiting there until the girl would be return.
Outside it was dusk and in the woods was almost dark. When he heard her steps on route. The girl was frightened and wanted to flee, but wayfarer prevent she to escape and demanded that he loved him. Girl to him felt disgust for his rudeness, she defended against him a lot of and she escaped. Wayfarer ran up behind her, picked up a thick branch, sprang up and struck the girl in the head so severely that he fell to the ground. He knelt down to her and found that the wound was so thorough that the girl threw open the skull, and she in his hands died. Wayfarer was frightened of what he did. He destroyed the beautiful girl who would never be his. Nobody would - was dead. He knew what awaited him if he was caught. At this time there was still exist a criminal law about poleaxe. And dug a hole in the ground and the girl put there and hid. Yet still a good concealed this place, didn't easy to find. He didn't return to the mill and disappeared in the world. In the mill impatiently awaited the girl would return, went to look for her, but to no avail. When she didn't return within three days, thought that she ran away into the world too.
However, wayfarer persecuted remorse and could not sleep. He returned and the girl dug out in order to be Christian buried. Only then would the miller learned what happened. Wayfarer's again disappear and never for his crime, he was not punished. But conscience didn't keep quiet him. To commemorate this event, the carved stone and a hoe or pickaxe and spade (or a stick and a shovel) instead of crosses.

The stone is very old and maybe that was on it something more, but time it wiped away. Behind is perhaps a cross, but who knows …

The story is described in the reputation which is in Ptacov's Chronicle.

An easy, relaxed cache ideal for an afternoon trip to beautiful Ptacov's surroundings. Parking is near the cache…

Informations are from book: Památné kameny a pověsti na Třebíčsku, 2010 vyd. Akcent, ISBN 978-80-7268-806-7