At night a headless monk’s ghost appears at Emmaus. He is said to have squandered his money, then stolen a consecrated host from the monastery church and sold it to a Jew. This reflects the superstition that Jews treated hosts with particular contempt. He was consequently beheaded, and his ethereal apparition is said still to haunt the place.
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At night a headless monk’s ghost appears at Emmaus. He is said to have squandered his money, then stolen a consecrated host from the monastery church and sold it to a Jew. This reflects the superstition that Jews treated hosts with particular contempt. He was consequently beheaded, and his ethereal apparition is said still to haunt the place.
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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.