The famous Codex giganticus was created in the former Benedictine monastery, destroyed by the Hussites in 1421, on whose site St Margaret’s Church now stands. It was also called the Devil’s Book, after an illustration of the Devil with a forked tongue and long claws on his hands and feet. The book was one metre tall and half a metre wide. During the Thirty Years’ War it was taken to Stockholm.
Location and map
- Place
- Podlažice
- Municipality / starting point
- Podlažice
- District / region
- Chrudim
- Country
- Czechia
- Distance and direction
- 1 km SE of Chrasti
The famous Codex giganticus was created in the former Benedictine monastery, destroyed by the Hussites in 1421, on whose site St Margaret’s Church now stands. It was also called the Devil’s Book, after an illustration of the Devil with a forked tongue and long claws on his hands and feet. The book was one metre tall and half a metre wide. During the Thirty Years’ War it was taken to Stockholm.
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Sources of the original atlas Tajemná místa · page 263
This legend preserves a folk tale. Its motifs do not constitute evidence of supernatural events.