The Devils Footprint

This is the Devils footprint which is in one of the churches in Munich. Legend has that as this church was being built the devil was flying around Munich. The church had run out of money while building and so the devil made a deal with the architect thinking that he could turn it into his church. The deal was that the devil would make sure there was enough money to build the church if he promised not to add anymore windows than what he could see now to the church, if he did the devil would get his soul. So the devil left and came back when the church was finished. He decided to go in a side door and when he opened it he saw lots of windows. He found the architect who took him to the front of the church and showed him that from there you could not see anymore windows. There are pillars blocking the view of the windows from the front of the church. The devil was so outraged that he stamped his foot and took off leaving the mark in the ground. That's the end of the story. Then we got to go in and see the footprint. Then the guide told us that it was really the architects signature. Kind of a disappointment I thought.