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There was a beautiful stone bridge Until one day… The King Wenceslas IV. got Right when the soldiers did their task, standing in the the middle of Europe, mad at the priest and a part of the bridge broke off and the in the town called Prague. Everybody ordered his soldiers to drop him into the water spilled over the bridge! loved that bridge and used it daily to cross river right from the Charles Bridge. the Vltava river.

Many builders tried to fix the bridge day After dark, the devil himself came to him! The builder had a plan - he wanted to by day but every night the bridge broke He made a pact with the devil. The devil release a rooster to run across the bridge again. One young builder decided to stay let him finish the bridge. In return, the before anyone else. But the devil tricked on the bridge over night to find out what devil wanted the soul of the first being the builder´s pregnant wife into running happens every night. that ever crosses the fixed bridge. across the bridge first...

Poor builder lost both his wife and Some say you could hear the unborn When you cross the bridge, stop by the unborn child. He was so upset he died child coughing in the morning when statue of John of Nepomuk and himself a year later. crossing the bridge. Until one day a man remember this story about a little unborn replied to the cough: “Bless you.” And the child who paid for his father’s pride with child’s soul could finally be free. his life.

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Look for the statue of St. If you want to make John of Nepomuk and touch a wish find a cross on him being tossed over the the stone railing of the bridge. This will bring you bridge, really close to luck, you will have a safe way the statue of St. John back home and come back to of Nepomuk. There Prague one day. Just be aware, he is again, touching you need to touch John of the water after he was Nepomuk, not the dog on the thrown into the river. other plague on the statue.

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