This project was done as a semestral work on a topic of a trip. I chose a Radyně castle, which is near Pilsen because of very interesting leggends conected with this place.
The legend about Radouš
In the forests near Pilsen, there lived one man with his wife which was pregnant. She was pregnant for a first time and she really wanted a daughter, so she visited a fortune teller to ask her if she really would have one. But when she heard that would be a son, she cursed him saying, "I would rather have a donkey". The words that she had said took revenge. Soon the boy was born with a crooked head and he had a donkey ears in place of human and a boar tusks sticking out of his mouth.
Radouš, how the boy was named, grew rapidly, and when he grew up, he left his home. He roamed the woods, when once he found on the road mysterious book. When he opened it, suddenly many little elves of various shapes and appearance appeard around him . They asked him how they could serve, and he replied that he wanted to build a big castle, where he would be the master. Elves started with work inmediately and in a relatively short time the castle was built on a hill in forests and it was named after Radouš - Radyně. In addition, elves endowed Radouš various supernatural abilities and strength, so Radouš began to dominate the castle, forests and the land around.
Radouš was going very well. In a short time he obtained great wealth and he was a accomplished master in nearby. But he wash't happy. He was alone on the castle . So he went to a nearby village to find a wife there, he would marry. When they had their first child and Radouš saw that curse casted upon him by his mother, also showed on his son, he became very angry, and killed both, his wife and son. Soon Radouš found a new wife, but as soon as they had a child, and he saw it was mutilated again, anger attacked him again and he killed both again. As well his other four wives were killed because of the same reason. Only the last women escaped from the castle soon enough to save her.
Radouš, which was gifted with many supernatural abilities by elves, thought that nothing could hurt him. There was only one thing he was afraid of, and it was a storm over the castle. One day a big storm was over the castle and Radouš fearing hid himself in the basement under the one of Radyně towers. But when lightning struck the tower, it collapsed on Radouš and killed him. Since then Radouš pay for his evil deeds, and prowls around as a ghost in the Radyně forests and will be freed only when one of his descendants would sit on the papal thronehim. This will be a sign that Radouš evil deeds were undone and he can be freed of his curse.
