All stories illustrated in the style of nineteenth-century drawings.
14 stories
She neither slams doors nor pursues anyone. The White Lady of Bechyně watches over a child, sits among the maids and carries a candle through the castle at night. Her very calm is what makes her extraordinary.
A protector of the Jewish Town was said to rise from clay. Yet the Prague legend also tells of the moment when its creator had to stop his own creation. What remains of the Golem in the story?
The devils hurried to finish their castle before morning. But two housewives were heading to Jihlava market, carrying something in a basket that the builders had not reckoned with.
Beneath the castle chapel, a fissure into another world was said to have been sealed. But the Houska legend has another face: a well from which nobody could draw water again.
A dragon frightens the city, but no knight rides out to fight. The famous Brno legend gives the leading role to a journeyman, an oxhide and a trick.
In the boulders on Za klášterem Hill, people saw a shepherd boy with sheep. Another tale found fleeing nuns there. One place, two utterly different fates.
The lord paid in gold. The jester kept something more valuable: his own name on the castle. The Beckov legend tells of a bargain meant to outlast generations.
According to legend, gold, silver and pearls sleep inside a rock north of Abertamy. Anyone hoping to enter must above all know how to wait.
One of the most remarkable stories of European alchemy is said to have taken place near Aš. The Wertherburg envoy Liebknecht was returning from a…
Northeast of Křemže rises Kluk hill, crowned by a massive rock. It has always seemed rather mysterious, so it is unsurprising that several old legends…
The area around Polička and Svitavy is exceptionally rich in old legends of restless dead, enchanted knights, fiery men, will-o’-the-wisps and unexplained…
At the end of the sixteenth century, Edward Kelly was among the most enigmatic figures at the imperial court in Prague. The Englishman, who moved among…
Northwest of the village there once stood an isolated farmstead called Valtoch. Tradition held that its name came from the German Waldhof, meaning a…
According to an old Šumava legend, a strange ghost appears at Vimperk Château every midnight. It is neither a knight nor a White Lady nor the spirit of an…