In the seventeenth century, the village became an important pilgrimage centre with the Church of the Visitation. In the nearby cemetery is the so-called Jaken Wall, where the spirit of a wicked castle lady supposedly shrieks at night. She is Polyxena, wife of the lord of Šachov, said to have cruelly tormented her servants. After her death, exorcisms failed. Her spirit supposedly lives in the wall, and smoke sometimes rises from its cracks. See Starý Šachov.
Location and map
- Place
- Horní Police
- Municipality / starting point
- Horní Police
- District / region
- Česká Lípa
- Country
- Czechia
- Distance and direction
- 9 km W of České Lípy
In the seventeenth century, the village became an important pilgrimage centre with the Church of the Visitation. In the nearby cemetery is the so-called Jaken Wall, where the spirit of a wicked castle lady supposedly shrieks at night. She is Polyxena, wife of the lord of Šachov, said to have cruelly tormented her servants. After her death, exorcisms failed.…
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Sources of the original atlas Tajemná místa · page 118
This legend preserves a folk tale. Its motifs do not constitute evidence of supernatural events.