Legend from the area
Præstepanden
When the parson of Tåderup conjured the parson of Ønslev down into the earth, a bottomless pool was left behind. Poke a stick down into it, and you might strike his skull.
A parson from Ønslev was once over visiting the parson in Tåderup. What the two gentlemen fell out over, the legend does not say. But it ended with the Tåderup parson setting about to conjure the Ønslev parson down into the earth.
It was a hard fight. The Ønslev parson resisted and kept being forced backwards, step by step, all the way down to the end of the meadow at Tåderup vicarage. Only there did he finally sink down.
On that spot there is still, to this day, a small pool of water, and it is bottomless. But if you poke a stick down into it, you can sometimes strike something hard: the skull of the Ønslev parson. That is why the place is called Præstepanden - "the parson's skull".
Conjuring down
In old folk belief, parsons could do more than preach. A parson who knew the right words could conjure ghosts and evil spirits down into the earth - often into a bog, a lake or a pool of water, where they had to stay forever. That it's a parson conjuring down another parson here gives the legend an extra edge: rivalry between neighbouring parishes was apparently not only something that went on between the farmers.
Byskov belongs to Ønslev parish, so it's our parson who lies down there. We haven't planned on poking a stick in the hole to check.
Source: J.K. Lindberg's recorded legends, reprinted in Ketty Lykke Jensen, Ønslev og Eskilstrup Sogne (2009), p. 187. Retold.