Prague shrine

On either side of the statue of St John of Nepomuk on Prague's Charles Bridge is a polished

bronze plaque, the right-hand one depicting the priest being flung off the bridge into the

Vltava below, from roughly where the statue is now. The falling priest is a good-luck charm

that Czech passers-by touch for their daily fix and to ensure their return to Prague - the

way folk fling coins into the Trevi fountain in Rome for the same reason. This picture is of

the other one, on the left-hand side of the statue. It has no special significance and no

good-luck manifestations, and it seems that only people who don't know the legend of St

John touch it and contribute to its polish. I shot this one as I thought it the better bronze,

and there wasn't a queue to fondle it.

On either side of the statue of St John of Nepomuk on Prague's Charles Bridge is a polished bronze

plaque, the right-hand one depicting the priest being flung off the bridge into the Vltava below,

from roughly where the statue is now. The falling priest is a good-luck charm that Czech

passers-by touch for their daily fix and to ensure their return to Prague - the way folk fling coins

into the Trevi fountain in Rome for the same reason. This picture is of the other one, on the

left-hand side of the statue. It has no special significance and no good-luck manifestations, and it

seems that only people who don't know the legend of St John touch it and contribute to its polish. I

shot this one as I thought it the better bronze, and there wasn't a queue to fondle it.