sentences:  At Legnica the Silesian duke Henry II the Pious, intercepted the invaders only to perish with his knights...The Tatars returned to ravage southern Poland again in 1259 and 1287 and the threat they posed dominated central and east European political and religious life for the next 200 years or so...In regional folklore the Tatar assumed the position of bogeyman, as the Kraków Corpus Christi "Lajkonik" procession colorfully reminds one"
  
  Whatever the origin, the city continues the tradition with a festival that has taken place every June for the past 700 years.