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Mystery Spirits: The Ghosts and Haunted Places of Prague |
| Section: CULTURE / FOLK WISDOM |
| Author: Douglas Burton |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1998 |
| Size: 1,731 Words, 10,432 Characters |
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The advertised "ghost tour" begins at 8:15 p.m. In the gathering night, we meet beneath the city hall's ancient clock. The soot-covered masonry soars into the dark sky, rising above the clatter of the cobbled square, the newly cleaned facades of baroque palaces, and the shadows of the city's narrow, dimly lit streets. The tour will last about an hour and a half and may be heard in English, German, or Czech.
Our tour guide, Nina Jelinkov? is a slight woman in her late thirties with waist-length raven hair. Her voice pays homage to Boris Karloff. Bedecked in a black cape and with torch in hand, she guides our group of eight across the medieval square to the north portal of nearby Tyne Church. "Uhlrich has haunted this portal since the fifteenth century," she intones in her studied bariton...
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...ooks what may be the real reason for these enduring stories. Anyone who has seen the mist rising from the Vltava River onto the cobblestone sidewalks, alleys, and narrow streets that wind and twist in all directions can grasp why. Prague exists in the twentieth century but, in some respects, it is not of it. And the wraiths and phantoms of bygone days and unquiet imaginations are still there.
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