The Gothic house sign from the House of the Iron Man is among Prague’s oldest and is now kept in the City Museum. Legend says that a knight who killed his lover was transformed into this sculpture as punishment. Only once every hundred years could a young girl free him from the spell. When a widow with a beautiful daughter once lived in the house, he had hope of salvation. But the cautious mother ruined it: at the decisive moment she locked up her daughter and appeared before the knight herself, condemning him to wait another hundred years for release.
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- Praha
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- Praha
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Sources of the original atlas Tajemná místa · page 270
This legend preserves a folk tale. Its motifs do not constitute evidence of supernatural events.