LIGHTNING WEALTH
A poor farmer in . Brurrian, near Prague, has reason to be thankful to a violent storm experienced-iri; the village. An old stone'statue.'standing derelict in his farmyard,' .which he always laughingly referred, to as his mascot, was struck by lightning. Gold, silver, money, jewels,' bracelets, rings, goblets encrusted with precious stones, scattered as the statue split asunder. Most of the money bore the date of the sixteenth century, and was doubtless hidden in ■ the statue' during the Thirty Years': War. -The coat:bf arms on the goblets belonged to a Protestant nobleman who was forced to flee the country, and who, no doubt, hoped to retrieve his treasures later. The irony of this hidden wealth is that the back of the statue's head through which the treasure must have been secreted, had fallen out during its journey to the farmer's yard, and the frightened peasants delivering it had pushed in a lump of wood to hide it, Urns resealing the vast treasures.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1937, Page 19
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162LIGHTNING WEALTH Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1937, Page 19
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