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The Iron Knight at Prague’s City Hall is a jealous ghost
The statue of an Iron Knight at City Hall relates to a gruesome ghost story. Prague City Hall is certainly the only administrative building in the world with a statue of a…
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Legends of the Loreta Carillon
A sad tale stands behind the melodious bells in the tower known as the Loreta Carillon. The beautiful pilgrimage church called the Loreta, in the Prague Castle neighborhood, has more than its…
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The Tragedy of the Turk of Ungelt: a ghost legend
A cross between the romance of Romeo and Juliet and the blind rage of Othello. Long ago, Prague’s Old Town Square was a market where foreign merchants would hawk their exotic wares.…
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The Snow Witch of Týn forever repents her evil ways
A woman who became a snow witch repents her self-serving ways every winter A woman who became a snow witch repents her self-serving ways every winterIf you look at old paintings and…
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The bitter winter night’s ghost tale of Naked Cecilie
A cold night had ghostly consequences for a civil servant and his unfaithful wife The holidays are the season of giving, but sometimes people give just a little too much. Also, not…
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Three Czech ghosts emerged from one Christmas Eve tragedy
The mistaken report of a soldier’s death led to unintentional bigamy and tragedy. Three Czech ghosts wander the streets on Christmas Eve in Prague’s Malá Strana district. They are not the ghosts…
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The flaming turkey of Kampa is Prague’s strangest ghost
A premature holiday meal was the undoing of a miller and created Prague’s oddest spectres. Bohemian ghost stories sometimes are downright bizarre. The tale of the angry flaming turkey of Kampa stands…
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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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Prague’s zombie: The Stromovka ghoul hunts on moonlit nights
One soldier stayed behind after the Siege of 1848 and became a zombie-like ghoul. One of the most pleasant ways to spend an afternoon is whiling away the time in Prague’s Stromovka…
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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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Three frightening ghosts and a unicorn roam Na Poříčí Street
A plague-era gravedigger, a flaming man and a harlot wander the same area of Prague. At the edge of Prague’s touristy center lies a small nexus of supernatural stories. Two frightening ghosts…
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The boy who turned to stone, a legend of Prague’s Old Town
One statue is not what it seems, according to a popular Old Town legend. Most old churches have some stone decorations on the roof, and the overwhelming majority are just fanciful sculptures…
