In the book “Legends of the Karkonosze and Surrounding Areas” by W. and A. Wiącek, we can read an interesting legend about the Lower Silesian giants, the Karkonts, who came from the far north to the basins of the Kwisa and Bóbr rivers and disturbed the peace of the Slavic tribes living in these areas. They forced the inhabitants to hand over food and perform slave labor, while they themselves spent their time playing dice, their favorite pastime. The dice, however, were made of pure gold and were so large that two adult men could not lift them. Exhausted, the inhabitants complained to their goddess Iwa, who, angered, drove the Karkonts into the mountains, where they were frozen into the Mountains of the Giants—the Karkonts—later known as the Karkonosze. Many years passed after these events before the free knight Radgost built a wooden manor and surrounded it with a palisade. Later, it passed by inheritance to his grandson Gostek. While digging ditches for the palisade, one of the Karkont dice, made of gold, was found. This made it possible to complete the manor and build a church. When Gostek’s descendants had already become knights of Bolesław the Wrymouth, they built a stone castellum on the site of the wooden manor and surrounded it with a stone wall. During the digging of a well inside the castellum, a second golden die was found. This made it possible to transform the castellum into a castle, whose ruins still stand today.
The settlement was named Gościszów after Gostków. Perhaps golden dice can still be found somewhere today.