The legend of the Dalghiu river

 The village of Vama Buzăului consists of four smaller villages: Acriş, Buzăiel, Vama and Vama de Sus or Dălghiu. The village of Dălghiu is named from the river on the banks of which the houses line up. The Dălghiu River is one of the largest tributaries of the Buzău River, which it meets shortly after it has collected its spring waters in a single bed. 

The legend says that a long, long time ago, in those lands, there lived an old and very poor man, who had no other support, than a son, named Dălghiu, who loved his father more than himself. Also at that time, it is said, that an evil dragon, wanting to enslave the people, stopped the waters in the mountain by using the secret of a spell known only to him. Now the poor man, after having no water to drink, had no more water to quench his thirst. 

Today like that, tomorrow like that, the lad seeing that his old father was almost dying from thirst and not wanting to be a slave to the dragon, one day he took digging tools and climbed the mountain. He began to dig confidently that in the end he would succeed in finding a spring of water. The old father, who was waiting at home, worried that the boy was late and thinking that he could help him with something, he also started climbing up the mountain to the place where Dălhiu, the boy, couldn't stop digging.

 Eventually he arrived, but old age, weakness and the cluel thirst killed the poor old man, and he gave his soul into the arms of the boy, who had his father's body on his chest, bitterly crying his pain and helplessness in the face of the merciless fate. He cried many days and nights in a row until the suffering overwhelmed him too. Their bodies, the story goes on, were turned into rocks and the boy's tears became a big and strong spring, which never dries up, bringing the much-desired water to the people.

 Seeing all this, the ugly dragon's heart burst with anger, and then the mountain waters broke the barriers and began to flow in streams, through the valleys below, joining with the spring of tears, forming a river that carries its rapid waters among the peaks of the mountains, rushing to meet his older brother Buzaul and since then, people have called the river after the name of the boy, who lost his life trying to help his father, Dalghiu.