Juraj Jánošík is known as the Slovak Robin Hood. In the 1700s, he was the captain of a gang of robbers that took justice into their own hands by distributing money and goods from the aristocracy and giving them to the poor people.  

         In real life, Jánošík was a soldier, taking part in the revolt of the estates of Frantisek II Rákóczi. The 1703 - 1711 revolt was aimed against the Habsburgs who were seeking to gain more control over the Slovak lands while limiting the power of the Hungarian nobility and restricting religious freedom.

         Jánošík left the army in 1711 and became the leader of a band of bandits operating in the woods of northwest Slovakia, then later in Moravia and Silesea.

         He was eventually captured on a fluke, according to legend. One day he was sitting in a pub with his men when word came out that the authorities were going to make another attempt to grab him. As he moved to escape from the pub an old, ugly, evil woman took a bowl of peas and dumped them on the ground causing him to slip and fall. Only then was he caught.

         During the trial of Verboczy in 1713, he was found guilty and taken in shackles and imprisoned in the small castle "Vranovo." Torture then followed. His suffering ended quickly when he was pierced by a hook through his left rib to his heart and hung from a tower at the prison.