In
Dzieje starożytne narodu litewskiego, Narbutt published the following story, footnoting that it was picked in a rural area near
Kretinga in
Samogitia. Tales about the place to be after death were like that. There is a mountain very high, a steep, inaccessible rock, called Anafielas, onto which shadows must climb. Therefore, long [finger and toe] nails, claws of animals, weapons, horses, servants, etc., are needed to get onto it more quickly. And the richer a man was, the more difficult was his access: for earthly possessions weigh heavily on the soul: a poor one, light as a feather, can climb the mountain, if he has not offended the gods in his life. Otherwise, dragon Wizunas, who lives under the mountain, will tear the sinful rich apart and a poor sinner will be carried away by bad winds. A god being which dwells on the top of this mountain, which is full of justice, judges the dead by their deeds done while alive. Everyone according to her judgment receives an eternal reward or punishment. Most probably Narbutt combined two old sources:
Gesta Danorum (12–13th centuries) of
Saxo Grammaticus and the
Bychowiec Chronicle (16th century). The
Chronicle tells a similar story about a steep mountain onto which one had to climb with the help of animal claws. Narbutt edited and published the
Chronicle in 1835. From Narbutt's correspondence it is known that he got the original of
Chronicle in early 1834, so it is plausible Narbutt used it in his works. A similar motif of dead climbing up with the help of animals' claws is found in some other chronicles. The villain Wisinnus was slain by a hero
Starcatherus (see Starkad#Gesta Danorum). One may only guess why Narbutt decided to use the name Anafial (and the name of Narbutt's dragon Wizunas sounds much like the Saxon villain Wisinnus) from Scandinavian tales on an allegedly Lithuanian myth. Narbutt's myth was popularized in the 19th century by, among others, Polish writer
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, who wrote an epic trilogy under the common title ''
, subtitled A Song from the Lithuanian Tales''. The word "anafielas" was recorded in a number of dictionaries as a genuine element of the Lithuanian mythology. ==In popular culture==