During rest and eating, a beautiful deer suddenly appeared, after which King Matthew and his entourage mounted their horses and left everything under a tree, they hunted hunting knives into a tree. While the king and his hunters chased the deer, two Madian sages discovered knives under a huge tree. They thought the tree gave birth to knives. They found knives with red and green handles. Two brothers-in-law collected knives and fled to the village to report a strange event. Then the villagers often went to the tree to see with their own eyes the birth of other knives. However, year after year passed, but the tree no longer bore knives. Angry villagers cut down a huge tree. When King Matej noticed during his one of the hunts that his villagers had cut down his huge favorite tree, he began to curse the villagers and left the village. Later, the villagers began to make fluffy and charming knives themselves. The art of making knives has been passed down from generation to generation. Today, knives are made by two masters: Štefan Bartalos and Dezider Németh. Every year, a "ball of a Madian knife" is organized. At the entrance gates of the cemetery grateful residents of the village built a monument to local heroes, the fallen in I. and II. world war. On Kostolnej Street there is a country house with a reed attic. A peasant house with a fireplace, built in 1813, is a local artistic monument. After II. World War II, the village of Mad will not change. Such a change was the cooperative movement in 1952, when the local farmers took away their arable land, land, pastures and livestock, and the period of joint management began. The cadastre of the village consists of 771 hectares of land. Since 1960, the village of Mad has administratively belonged to the neighboring village of Dolný Bar. After the events in 1989, the village became independent again. In 1998, the farmers' cooperative ceased to exist. He was replaced by Agrikolt sro. The village is electrified in 1956, gasification was completed in 1996, water supply since 2006.
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