The Daliborka Tower at Prague Castle is famously named after the knight Dalibor of Kozojedy, imprisoned here for inciting a peasant revolt in the Litoměřice region. People said, “Necessity taught him to play the fiddle,” and supposedly all Prague came to listen. He was executed in 1498. It is possible that the mournful music was actually the screams of Dalibor being tortured on the rack, nicknamed the fiddle in executioners’ jargon.
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- Praha
- Municipality / starting point
- Praha
- District / region
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SOURCES OF THE STORY
Sources of the original atlas Tajemná místa · page 270
This legend preserves a folk tale. Its motifs do not constitute evidence of supernatural events.