A sombre land of old shafts and strange German legends. Sprites guarding ore veins ruled underground, while forests held local forms of Hejkal—Hehman, Hojman or Hansoh around Měděnec, Hansmichl in Kovářská—and tree women. The agates decorating St Wenceslas's chapel in Prague's St Vitus Cathedral also came from this region. Saxon princes' interests met those of the Bohemian Crown in its famous mining towns. The Erfurt alchemist Basil Valentine wrote of its rich deposits; Agricola and others worked at Jáchymov. (See Jáchymov, Měděnec, Vejprty, Výsluní, Horní Blatná and others.)
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A sombre land of old shafts and strange German legends. Sprites guarding ore veins ruled underground, while forests held local forms of Hejkal—Hehman, Hojman or Hansoh around Měděnec, Hansmichl in Kovářská—and tree women. The agates decorating St Wenceslas's chapel in Prague's St Vitus Cathedral also came from this region. Saxon princes' interests met those…
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Sources of the original atlas Tajemná místa · page 185
This legend preserves a folk tale. Its motifs do not constitute evidence of supernatural events.