The article analyzes interpretations of a legend about a walled-up woman in the town of Kratovo in North Macedonia. The Rada's bridge, still an important communication junction in Kratovo, can be understood as an artifact in which the historical is intertwined with the archaic, anchored in the legend of Rada walled-up alive in one of the bridge's towers. Taking into account the context of the bridge construction in 1833, contemporary interpretations of the legend will be analyzed: both institutionalized and those formulated by the city inhabitants for whom the Rada's bridge is a catalyst for their imagination and, at the same time, an element of everyday experience.
