legend.
One more Insterburg story was connected with sorcery. It's about one girl whose name was Verona.She was adopted by a smith's family. Gradually the girl became very beautiful and she was also a witch who ruined solid German families.
The leaders of the town decided to get rid of her. They broke ice in the river and drowned her. Some time later she started to come to the town overy night and took one man after another who were found hanged in the morning. Nobody knows how the citizens ofthe town gotrid of such wisfortune.Prussian sagas don't give any inbormation about it.But some remedy was found ,otherwise the town would be devastated completely. But the most famous local ghosts were the spivits of Prussian Knight Kamsvikus and his wife.The story says that before arrival of Tutonic Order in 13th centry,not far from Chernyakhovsk,here was a castle of the local lord.(This place was not far from Timofeyevka).Kamsvikeis,the lord of thr castle,was a very violent person. He even killed his own son when the latter wanted to protect the citizens.Then he put his own wife into cellar when she didn't please him.Prussian Goods tried to put up with his bad and crull behaviour.But when their patience finished they sent the flood to the castle.His poor wife died together with Kamsvikus.The woman was doomedto appear in the image of the black cow which was followed by a black cat. The spirit of the cruel knight was in the black cat.
According to the legend,the embodiment of the God's punishment was a black rider who followed the cow and the cat and beat them with a long black lash.As the legend says,"Often at midinight people see all three ghosts rushind in the woods."People built the wonument to the kind knight,Kamsvikus's son.This is a stone 25 paces length.One more ghost of a cat lives just near Insterburg Castle.But it is not black,it's green!
Long time ago at the bank of the medieval ditch,which was changed into a pond,there was a small inn "Green cat".Of course,white time passeds,nothing was left of th inn.The one reminder about it is a "green cat" which was thrown from it's usual inhbitat and it is usually seen among the trees near the bank of thr pond.It rumbles in a low voice and flashes with it's angry eyes,as it it want to say,"Where is my inn?!"