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...hollow-cheeked Lara still lives his legend, tapping out tunes,for arrangers to orchestrate, keeping up his floor show at the Capri nightclub and his Lírico revues. His soft piano-playing in a darkened room with a single soft light playing on his pinched face is still the most irresistible thing in Mexican entertainment. The royalties roll in, and he spends them expertly...
Near Bamberg in Franconia is a smallish cave with a hollow in front of it. In that hollow, in ancient times, a wicked duke cornered three virgin princesses and, when they resisted him, cut off their heads. Every October since then, says Bamberger legend, the three determined virgins gallop out of the cave by the light of the harvest moon. Headless and dressed in transparent robes, they charge around the woods on three white horses...
Beckoning Mouse. The cave is accordingly called the Cave of the Virgins' Hollow. It has traditionally been shunned by most, but not by old Farmer Johannes Engert, who figured that the princesses may have stored treasure there. He defied their ghosts and dug in the cave. One night, while Engert was digging by candlelight, a red mouse came out of a hole, sat down on its haunches and beckoned to him. He told the neighbors about this unnerving event and thereafter they left him alone in his nocturnal diggings...
Worse than Death. It was not necessarily the girls' beauty that brought their bones to rest in the Cave of the Virgins' Hollow. Among their remains the diggers found fragments of many small pottery bowls. When they also found an enormous pottery cauldron three feet in diameter, they began to suspect that the 40 beauties had met a fate in the cave that was really worse than death. Further study of the skeletons confirmed the suspicion. Each shapely skull had a hole in it, and conical stone axheads found in the debris fitted the holes exactly. Most...
...princess, or priestess or high courtesan) must have been a gorgeous sight as she lay in death in her chariot. Around her neck was a collar of tubular bronze. On her breast were brooches and necklaces set with amber and stones. She wore bracelets of amber and anklets of hollow bronze...