Tradition / Region: Czech Mythology
Alternative names: None recorded
Category: Sheep
The Myth
According to an old legend from the Bohemian Forest, there once lived an enormous primordial goat of unimaginable size upon Mount Hohen Bogen. She was so colossal that the forests beneath her appeared no taller than grass, while her mighty horns stretched almost to the moon.
One day, the giant goat fell asleep beside a hollow mountain road. As she slept, a cart passed by without realizing the immense creature lying there. One of its wheels rolled across her udder, tearing open one of her teats.
Immediately, an unstoppable torrent of milk burst forth. The goat’s milk poured down the mountainside like a raging river, flooding the valleys below. The deluge became so immense that villages were overwhelmed, and countless unfortunate people drowned beneath the endless flood of goat’s milk.
The tale survives as one of the Bohemian Forest’s oldest mythical stories, portraying a gigantic primordial animal whose sheer size transformed an ordinary accident into a catastrophic natural disaster.
Sources
SAGEN.at. (n.d.). Geißmilch. In SAGEN.at – Traditionelle Sagen. Retrieved June 28, 2026, from https://www.sagen.at/texte/sagen/tschechien/watzlik/geissmilch.html