In the oldest building in the wider area, the thirteenth-century Romanesque church in Nudvojovice, now part of Turnov, a remarkable green devil is depicted in a Last Judgment painting. The work is the 1570 epitaph of the family of Jiří Reinolt of Stiřín, captain at Rohozec. The devil drives the condemned into eternal fire with a dung fork. Numerous legends about him circulated in the region. (See Michalovice.)
Location and map
- Place
- Turnov
- Municipality / starting point
- Turnov
- District / region
- Semily
- Country
- Czechia
- Distance and direction
- 31 km NE of Mladé Boleslavi
In the oldest building in the wider area, the thirteenth-century Romanesque church in Nudvojovice, now part of Turnov, a remarkable green devil is depicted in a Last Judgment painting. The work is the 1570 epitaph of the family of Jiří Reinolt of Stiřín, captain at Rohozec. The devil drives the condemned into eternal fire with a dung fork. Numerous legends…
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Sources of the original atlas Tajemná místa · page 350
This legend preserves a folk tale. Its motifs do not constitute evidence of supernatural events.