My story from Prague: LEGENDS OF THE DARK CITY

Опште је познато да у Прагу не морате лутати дуго у потрази за нечим ''мистериозним''... Будући да сам скоро објавио један снимак, ''Ghost Tour In Prague'', сетио сам се једне добре приче из самог центра града... The story takes place in 1621...

The Twenty-Seven Beheaded Bohemian Lords

''Twenty-seven white crosses on the paving on Old Town Square commemorate one of the saddest events in Czech history. It was here, on the 21st of June 1621, that the Czech lords who had led the Rebellion of the Estates against Emperor Ferdinand II were executed. Ten noblemen, five Prague burghers and two burghers from Kutna horá and Žatec were all beheaded by the Prague executioner Mydlář. The Czech lords who met this dismal end included some of the leading noblemen of the land. Among them were the seventy-four-year-old scholar and writer Václav Budovec of Budov and the traveller Kryštof Harant of Polžice, as well as the celebrated physician and profesor of Charles University Jan Jesenius, who conducted the first public autopsy in the Bohemian Lands. The dreadful and sorry spectacle lasted from five o'clock in the morning until one o'clock in the afternoon. The heads of twelve of those executed were then hung in iron baskets from the parapet of the Old Town Bridge Tower as a warning to others, six facing the Old Town and six facing the Lesser Town. When permission was given for the heads to be taken down ten years later, relatives and friends buried them at an unknown site. They are said to be interred in the walls of the Church of Our Lady Before Týn, or perhaps somewhere in the Church of St Saviour's in the Old Town. According to legend, each year on the day of their death, the 21st of June, the ghosts of the executed gather at the clock and check that it is working properly. If it is telling the time precisely, they are satisfied that the Bohemian lands are prospering, but if the clock is broken, they return to their eternal resting places sad and dejected.''

(77 Prague Legends - Alena Ježková)

Изабрао сам ову причу, зато што се заснива на чињеницама, а опет је успела, да на неки начин, постане прича за лаку ноћ.... Надам се да вам се допала (бар онима који знају енглески :P), и само да знате да ће их бити још...