Bivoj was so strong that he could catch a wild boar with his bare hands.
Libuse was wise and strong, and she could tell the future.
Semik the horse, saved his owner, Horymir, from a terrible fate.
The Golem, a man-made monster on which the Frankenstein story was later based, lived in Prague.
Sarka and her band of wild women tricked Ctirad and fought against male tyranny.
The Knights of Blanik lay asleep inside Blanik Mountain. When things are at their worst
in the Czech lands, they will come to the rescue.
Dalibor, imprisoned in a Prague Castle tower, learned to play the violin because he was hungry.
The townspeople liked the music so much that they brought him food, which they sent up to the
tower window in baskets. The Czechs say, "Hunger taught Dalibor to fiddle." It means the same
thing as "Necessity is the mother of invention."
The Czechs had a ruler named "King Barley" (Kral Jecminek) so nomered because he was born in a barley field.
Bretislav was so enamored of the beautiful Jitka that he stole her away from the convent where
she was living and married her.
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