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Please tell me some interesting legends/memorates [Completed]

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Klear:
I thought the point of not posting the legends here was so there's a chance two people do the same one, but don't copy each other.

In any case, we have a lot of legends, but I chose the pretty much biggest one from Prague... I guess chances are we both did the same one =)

ZicherCZ:
Oh. Then we certainly didn't post the same :).

Matt_S:
This assignment is done now.  Thanks for your contributions!

Klear:
I'll go ahead and repost the PM I sent here, hoping the others do the same:


--- Quote ---There is a lot of legends centered in Prague, some well known, some less, but none of them is as famous as the legend of the Prague Golem. The story starts with Judah Loew ben Bezalel, usually known as rabbi Löw. This wise 16th century mystic created Golem out of sand and dirt found on the bank of Vltava river, reciting forgotten Hebrew incantations and finally putting a magical "šém" into its mouth to give it life. This animated being was to be his servant. Sometimes it is said that it was created to protect to Jewish quarter from pogroms. In any case, Golem was a capable helper, but sometimes too overzealous, since it didn't understand its own strength. For example, when sent to the market to bring apples, Golem would bring the whole stand including the frightened clerk selling them. Another time, tasked with fishing, Golem caught almost all the fish in Vltava (back then it wasn't as dirty as today and there was a lot of fish).

Every evening, when rabbi Löw no longer had use for Golem, he took out the šém and he became a lifeless statue again. On day however, he forgot, and Golem went on a rampage. He tore through the crooked alleys of the Jewish quarter, wrecking everything and killing anybody unlucky to stand it its way. Rabbi Löw, woken up by the noise, ran after him and barely managed to snatch the šém from Golem's mouth. After seeing the destruction his creation wrought, he put Golem to the attic of the Old New Synagogue, vowing never to bring him to life again. Nobody has been to the attic since then, except they say, for one student, who... but that's a different story.
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ZicherCZ:
What the hell? I can't find the legend I sent in my outbox, nor can I find my later response to Matt's reaction ... WTF?
Matt, if you still have the legend I sent you, would you please post it here on my behalf?

EDIT: Oh. Stupid me. "Save a copy to my outbox" apparently left unchecked :(.

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