On the night of St Thomas’s feast, a fiery carriage travels through Horažďovice, across the square to the cemetery. It supposedly waits there for all the dead men named Thomas. Their patron saint helps them aboard and drives them over the bridge, holding a fiery whip.
Location and map
- Place
- Horažďovice
- Municipality / starting point
- Horažďovice
- District / region
- Klatovy
- Country
- Czechia
- Distance and direction
- 18 km NW of Strakonic
On the night of St Thomas’s feast, a fiery carriage travels through Horažďovice, across the square to the cemetery. It supposedly waits there for all the dead men named Thomas. Their patron saint helps them aboard and drives them over the bridge, holding a fiery whip.
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Sources of the original atlas Tajemná místa · page 115
This legend preserves a folk tale. Its motifs do not constitute evidence of supernatural events.