So Princess Kinga, born in the Kingdom of Hungary, was to be married to Boleslaw V the Chaste, Prince of Krakow. As part of her dowry, she got some salt, a treasured commodity in Poland, put her engagement ring in it, and threw it down a mine in Hungary. Then she set off to Poland to get married. After she arrived, she asked the Polish miners to dig down deep enough to find a rock, in which was the clump of salt, in which was her engagement ring. Ta-da!! That was good enough to make her a patron saint of the local salt miners.
Sounds to me like the salt miners had ample free time down in the mines to come up with these tales.
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