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Two ghosts who nailed it

March 19, 2018 /

Malá Strana has two ghosts who suffered painful deaths that involved iron nails A pair of otherwise unrelated ghosts a few streets apart in Prague’s historical Malá Strana area have something in…

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baroque, Bohemian lifestyle, cemeteries and memorials, churches, Gothic fashion, Gothic lifestyle, Magic Bohemia, saints and relics

The creepy bone chapel of Kutná Hora

October 9, 2017 /

Bones from 40,000 plague and war victims are in creative sculptures The ossuary at Sedlec is generally called the Bone Church, and for good reason. Bones from tens of thousands of people…

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cemeteries and memorials, Gothic fashion, Gothic lifestyle

Momento Mori to McQueen – a Brief History of the Skull in Fashion

September 27, 2014 /

Over the years, the human skull has somehow represented almost everything – life and death, perilous danger and good luck. We see it worn by Hell’s Angels and Hello Kitty alike. I…

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