Not far from Liepasmuiža, there lies the so-called Velns’* Cave. There is a smaller cave at the side of the larger one.
Out of the larger cave – a source runs. The streaming water must have washed out the sands and that is how the cave has been formed
Nearby Liepasmuiža, there is yet another cave which is not unlike the Velns’ Cave if only smaller in size.
Third cave can be found on the other shore of the river Gauja and that cave is known as the Sietiņiezis.
Those three caves velns used to have for his dwelling.
At times, velns would abide in one of the caves, then in the other and the third cave, as well, velns took for his homestead.
While dwelling in his caves, velns used to visit the yard of the ‘Sietiņi’ household having taken the shape of a billy-goat and there the velns chowed down the cabbages and the ‘Sietiņi’ folk could find no relief and no riddance of his misdeeds.
Velns used to bed on a rock in those caves – a rock which resembled an inglenook.
When priests arrived to recite their prayers and to have velns banished forever and for good, the poor dear ungoodly flung out of the cave like a niner.
And not through the old mouth of the cavern he flew.
Instead, velns kicked out a new hole in the side of the cave in order to make for his flight.
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*Velns – the deity of fertility and the chaotic, disruptive aspect to nature and creation in the Latvian mythology, also Christian devil.
Latvian Folk Tales 