In 1684, a trial with two women from Ružindol suspected of witchcraft took place in the town of Trnava. Women were subjected to the ordeal of water – they were forced to swim in deep water and as they did not drown, they were found guilty and subsequently convicted. They were accused of witchcraft and handed over to the executioner. Only by drowning in water, they could prove their innocence and the fact that they were not witches. Another of witch trials took place in 1744 before the Trnava seat of judges and on that occasion two more witches from Ružindol ended up on the scaffold. A local man Ján Branislav Hergot became famous in the 19th century. He was strongly built and many people considered him the strongest Slovak of the time. As a volunteer in the revolutionary year of 1848, he was taken captive, from which he escaped with the rebel flag. Another well-known story about him is the one dating back to 1868, in which he, thanks to his unusual strength, prevented the attempt of Hungarian chauvinists to thwart a theatrical performance in Trnava. He died in 1873, when he reportedly sunk into ice-cold water. He caught cold and was so sick that he never again got up from the bed.