On winter nights a fiery rider wanders the town. He always stops in the moat and laments; then a bullet whistles and the ghost falls, reliving his death each night. He is said to be the spirit of Swedish general Samuel Österling, who once killed a man and fled justice. People claimed he was a fext, immune to ordinary bullets. According to legend a girl finally shot him with a glass ball cast for her pistol.
WHERE TO FIND THE PLACE
Location and map
- Place
- Jihlava
- Municipality / starting point
- Jihlava
- District / region
- Not stated in the sources
- Country
- Not specified in the sources
- Distance and direction
- 87 km NW of Brna
Approximate location on the map
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Approximate location · municipality or area search. The distance comes from the sources, not a currently calculated route.
SOURCES OF THE STORY
Sources of the original atlas Tajemná místa · page 150
This legend preserves a folk tale. Its motifs do not constitute evidence of supernatural events.