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The restless skeletons of Old Town
A flaming miser and a top hat-wearing beggar are among the restless skeletons wandering Prague at night. Old Town is quite crowded at night with a variety of headless ghosts, flaming ghosts,…
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The death of Tycho Brahe, the astrologer to Rudolf II
The man behind the silver nose, Tycho Brahe was only in Bohemia for a short time While the court of Emperor Rudolf II was filled with astrologers and alchemists, the most famous…
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The sad tale of Prague’s pathetic lone vampire
The city’s only vampire, Dopiječ, unlives in a borrowed grave in Olšany Cemeteries. Prague surprisingly has few tales of vampires before modern times. Many films, novels, and computer games mention Prague as…
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See the seven creepiest relics in Prague churches
Some skeletons and mummies all dressed up with no place to go are the Golden City’s creepiest relics Most Catholic churches have a creepy relic of one sort or another, but which…
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The Black Sun shines darkly over a Baroque doorway in Prague
A building near Old Town Square with the image of a black sun shows a hint of the alchemy woven in Prague’s past. In alchemy, everything has its counterpart, its mirror image.…
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Prague will not be Mesmerized: a magnetism spa ended in failure
The family that brought Mozart to Prague tried to do the same with Mesmer, but mesmerism was a flop. Even though Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart visited Prague only a handful of times, his…
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The dog and the legend of Charles Bridge
Petting the bronze dog on Charles Bridge is a more recent tradition than many people think. Practically every tourist who crosses Charles Bridge in Prague touches one of three places on the…
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The haunted ministry: Prague’ Černín Palace hides a demonic past
The Černín Palace in Prague has a long and unsettling history. . What is now the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs from the 1660’s up to 1851 belonged to the noble Černín…
