About fifty years ago it was still the custom to drive the horses out to pasture and let them graze there all night. So it happened one time that several herdsmen were together on a clover field near Heringen Castle, in the place called “op Hergen” (in the parish of Waldbillig), keeping watch over the horses. They had made up a fire for themselves. Next to the clover field there was a cornfield.

One of the horses had several times been driven out of the cornfield by its herdsman. When it went over there again, the herdsman jumped up and drove it back into the clover, saying: “If you go over there again, may the Devil take you—even if it’s the Devil of Heringen!” Then, from the side of the castle, a buck came flying through the air; it rushed about over the field, constantly spewing fire.

Reported by Teacher Franck of Waldbillig.