Tajemná místaATLAS OF STORIES AND LEGENDS
Kutná Hora · STORY FROM THE ATLAS

The Hejkal’s Echo

This is the folk name for the echo reflected by the walls of the Church of Our Lady Na náměti. A legend associates it with a miser who left his injured wife to die in a cellar. Lamentations could be heard from underground, and later passers-by took to calling out in the same way.

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Place
Kutná Hora
Municipality / starting point
Kutná Hora
District / region
Not stated in the sources
Country
Not specified in the sources
Distance and direction
15 km SE of Kolína

This is the folk name for the echo reflected by the walls of the Church of Our Lady Na náměti. A legend associates it with a miser who left his injured wife to die in a cellar. Lamentations could be heard from underground, and later passers-by took to calling out in the same way.

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SOURCES OF THE STORY

Sources of the original atlas Tajemná místa · page 192

This legend preserves a folk tale. Its motifs do not constitute evidence of supernatural events.

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