The Needle's Eye
Near Kloster Ilfeld, close by the chaussée, stands on a mountain a huge boulder, which has a small hole through the centre.
All the servants from Nordhausen and the other surrounding places, when they drive into the forest the first time for wood, must creep three times through this hole—which is only done with difficulty; and as they creep in, and on the opposite side out, their comrades lash them with their whips.
If the new-comer will not indulge in this pastime, he must pay money.
The new pupils in the high school at Ilfeld must also, as a joke, creep through the Needle's Eye.
This stone a giant is said to have thrown out of his shoe.