Lake Bovan is located on the Moravica river near Aleksinac. There is a legend about the lake that many residents know. When the lake was to be built and the terrain was flooded with water, the construction crew ordered the people to move out from the valley. The whole village that lied in the gorge was moved out and their houses left to be demolished by the incoming tidal wave. Everybody moved except an old woman who refused to abandon her home. When a worker there told her she will die if she stays, she said she will gladly lose her life and she cursed the lake to demand lives every year. Nobody took her curse seriously, but later on, the curse caught with them. Year after year, the workers started dying, their families turned poor, cattle ill, women infertile. Every year, a new reckless driver breaks through the fence with his car and falls into the lake, swimmers get caught by the cold stream of the river beneath and sink to the bottom.
The local people believe that the curse lives on and they even knowingly avoid going to the lake until they hear that someone has died which would mean that they can feel safe since the lake has taken its victim.
