NEW ARTICLEShe neither slams doors nor pursues anyone. The White Lady of Bechyně watches over a child, sits among the maids and carries a candle through the castle at night. Her very calm is what makes her extraordinary.
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NEW ARTICLEA protector of the Jewish Town was said to rise from clay. Yet the Prague legend also tells of the moment when its creator had to stop his own creation. What remains of the Golem in the story?
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NEW ARTICLEThe devils hurried to finish their castle before morning. But two housewives were heading to Jihlava market, carrying something in a basket that the builders had not reckoned with.
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STORY FROM THE ATLASBeneath the castle chapel, a fissure into another world was said to have been sealed. But the Houska legend has another face: a well from which nobody could draw water again.
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STORY FROM THE ATLASA dragon frightens the city, but no knight rides out to fight. The famous Brno legend gives the leading role to a journeyman, an oxhide and a trick.
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STORY FROM THE ATLASIn the boulders on Za klášterem Hill, people saw a shepherd boy with sheep. Another tale found fleeing nuns there. One place, two utterly different fates.
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STORY FROM THE ATLASThe lord paid in gold. The jester kept something more valuable: his own name on the castle. The Beckov legend tells of a bargain meant to outlast generations.
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STORY FROM THE ATLASAccording to legend, gold, silver and pearls sleep inside a rock north of Abertamy. Anyone hoping to enter must above all know how to wait.
Read the storyShe neither slams doors nor pursues anyone. The White Lady of Bechyně watches over a child, sits among the maids and carries a candle through the castle at night. Her very calm is what makes her extraordinary.
A protector of the Jewish Town was said to rise from clay. Yet the Prague legend also tells of the moment when its creator had to stop his own creation. What remains of the Golem in the story?
The devils hurried to finish their castle before morning. But two housewives were heading to Jihlava market, carrying something in a basket that the builders had not reckoned with.
Beneath the castle chapel, a fissure into another world was said to have been sealed. But the Houska legend has another face: a well from which nobody could draw water again.
A dragon frightens the city, but no knight rides out to fight. The famous Brno legend gives the leading role to a journeyman, an oxhide and a trick.
Bohnice's institutional cemetery is associated with patients of the former asylum and many stories from the first half of the twentieth century. Modern…