Povest o
Lokýtkovi
Do zdiva veže Novomestské radnice
je zasazen železný loket – stredoveká míra. Tady si mohl každý
overit, zda jej kupec pri prodeji látky nenapálil. Míra byla
umístena na zdi pomerne vysoko, proto ne každý na ni dosáhl.
Z tohoto duvodu mestští radní najali muže vysoké postavy,
který všem zájemcum pomohl a látku pomocí lokte premeril. Ve
stredoveku lidé dostávali jména podle toho jakou práci vykonávali,
proto zacali muži ríkat Loket.
Po letech, když zemrel, zdedil tuto práci jeho syn. Ten však nemel
tak statnou postavu, byl menšího vzrustu, proto dostal jméno
Lokýtek.
Jednoduchá práce Lotýktovi nestacila, chtel víc penez. Proto se
domluvil s nepoctivými pláteníky a zacal ocernovat ostatní
poctivé remeslníky. Když k nemu prišel clovek s prosbou o
premerení plátny, zeptal se od koho látka je. Podle odpovedi bud
míru pochválil, nebo pohanel. Ten, kdo mu dával tajne peníze mel
míru vždy dobrou, ostatní byli ocerneni.
Behem nejaké doby prišla spousta poctivých obchodníku na mizinu.
Vrtalo jim v hlave, proc u nich lidé prestávají nakupovat. Až
jeden bystrý pláteník prišel na to, v cem by mohl být problém.
Vzal své plátno, peclive je nameril a prišel za Lokýtkem
s prosbou o premerení. Když se jej Lokýtek jako každého
zeptal, odkud plátno má, popravde rekl své jméno. „Tak to vás
ošidili, pane. Tam už nechodte“. Jakmile pláteník uslyšel tento
ortel, náramne se rozzuril a všem lidem s krikem odhalil
Lokýtkuv podvod. Lokýtek ve strachu utekl a nikdo jej už nikdy
nevidel. Pláteník z rozcilení onemocnel a druhý den
zemrel.
Vždy ve výrocí pláteníkovy smrti se v noci objeví duch,
s desem v ocích pohlédne na železný loket, jako by jej
honili probehne kolem radnice a zmizí….
Keš
Keš je hranatá mikro. Vzhledem ke
slabému signálu a silnému zamudlení, prostudujte radeji
nápovedu.
Prosím, prineste si tužku a šetrete místem. Díky.
The Short Cubit
legend
In the masonry of
New Town City Hall an iron cubit – a medieval measure is embedded.
In past ages everybody could check here if the clothier didn’t
trick him. The measure was placed a bit higher on the wall, so not
everybody was able to reach it. That’s why town councilors hired a
tall man who helped measuring the cloth to everybody who asked for
it. In medieval people got names after their jobs, so the man was
called Cubit. After his death, his son inherited this job. He
wasn’t that tall, so people started to call him The Short
Cubit.
Easy work was not
enough for The Short Cubit. He wanted to have more money. That’s
why he made an agreement with crooked clothiers and started to
discredit other honest merchants. Every time someone came to him to
control the cloth measure, he asked from whom the cloth came.
Accordingly to the answer he approved or disparaged the measure.
Those clothiers who gave money to Short Cubit had good measure,
others had wrong. During certain time many merchants were broke and
wondering why folks stopped buying from them.
Then one bright
merchant came with an idea. He measured his cloth correctly and
came to the Short Cubit asking him for control. As usually The
Short Cubit asked for origin of the cloth and merchant answered
truly with his name. “Oh, you were tricked, sir. Don’t buy from
that clothier anymore.” The merchant hearing this verdict became
furious and disclosed Cubit’s trick. Short Cubit didn’t wait a
second and ran away. Unfortunately the clothier became sick from
rage and died a day after.
On every anniversary
of clothier’s death the ghost of Short Cubit appears at the City
Hall, with feverous eyes shortly gazes at the cubit on the wall and
as chased runs around the corner on city hall and
disappears…
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Special note for native English
speakers – could someone check and correct the English text for me?
Thanks
Železný loket - Iron cubit
Další keše ze serie o
pražských jsou mužete navštívit zde:
Additional caches from
Prague legends serie can be found here:
O Utaté ruce
O zkamenelém
ulicníkovi
O kostlivci s hrebem v
hlave
O staviteli chrámu na Karlove
