Carp Pool 3

View of the young people feeding the sacred carp.

The local legend is that when the local king Nimrod tried to kill Abraham by burning him, the flames became water and the burning logs became carp. Thus the carp are considered to be "sacred." The tradition is that if anyone eats them, they will go blind.

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