The Mad Barber
If you just so happen to be walking down Karlova Street in the dark hours of night be sure to watch out for the Mad Barber, a mild mannered ghost seeking his freedom from his ghastly servitude to a creepy eternity of wandering the streets of Prague’s Old Town. The Mad Barber lived during the reign of Rudolph II and was by profession a successful barber and lived in a sort of middle class affluence. His profession however didn’t provide enough cold hard cash to keep him happy so the Mad Barber tried his luck elsewhere with the help of magical alchemy. He practiced old rituals in his home and magically started to produce gold, which his wife and three daughters complained about warning him it would come to no good. In the end greed and want destroyed the man; he spent all of the family’s money and was left with nothing. He was forced to sell his house, all three of his daughters became prostitutes and his wife, bless her soul, jumped from a high fortification wall ending her poor, sad life. The barber went mad without any money to buy even a slice of thick Czech bread and started to wildly slash passersby with his razor. In the end he provoked a group of soldiers who beat him to death. The Mad Barber is not an evil ghost by any means, he only wishes for his freedom. In order to free the Mad Barber a brave living male soul must agree to let this horrid image of a transparent man with mad eyes and shaking limbs shave him. Are you a brave enough fellow to allow the Mad Barber shave you? The city of Prague and the inhabitants of Karlova Street would surely thank you!
The Mad Barber can be seen on Karlova Street (Praha 1) around midnight.
