The Haunted Treasure of Malevizi

In Crete, since the time of the Venetians, the haunted treasure was called "veros". If someone happened to find the hidden treasure, they did not touch it for fear of the treasure’s spirit, which would kill them within the same year. In Crete, they imagined the spirit as a huge black man. They also believed that for someone not to be bothered by the spirit, they should tie a black cow to the treasure box and hit it so that the demon would be angry with the animal and not with them.

According to tradition, for someone to find a treasure (which was kept either in large silver containers or gold and copper cauldrons), one would have to dream about it three times and then go dig it up without telling anyone. If they told anyone, then the treasure would become coal.

It is said that in Malevizi, a villager had seen the same dream three times in his sleep in the old days. A man appeared to him and urgently asked him to go to the cave of Sarchos (also known as Chonos or Bat Cave) to the west of the village with the same name. There he would have to call out the spirit of Musas three times and then take the golden plough and the golden yoke of the plough that would be given to him. The villager did precisely what the man told him, but when the spirit appeared to him and brought him the treasure, he was afraid and did not take it. So out of fear, he lost his luck. In fact, this news was published on 04/24/1930 in the magazine "BOUKETO".