Friday, August 20, 2010

I have a bone to pick with you


Just outside Prague, there is a church with a difference. It is in a place called Sedlec, just a small little village next to an old silver mining town called Kutna Hora (careful how you say that). Kutna Hora was important until the mid 18th century and at one time was probably Czech's second city, but now it is just a quaint little village, and Sedlec is a small offshoot of that. The Ossuary there is decorated with the bones of over 40000 people. The architect of the osuuary in the 1800's thought it would be a great idea to use all the bones they found lying in the crypt for decoration. People in the area now really want to be "buried" there too, its a bit of a fashion thing I suppose. The whole thing was a little odd, not really creapy but just odd. There is an old saying in Yorkshire, "there's nought as queer as folk" and I think that applies here.

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