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Away with him to the block! said the Emperor. Amen, sneered Hatto, still chuckling over the success of his strategy. And so Adalbert went forth to his doom, the victim of the cruel Churchmans treachery. Rheingrafenstein
It is true that he was the founder of the toll which ships in olden times were obliged to pay on the Rhine, so that this fact and many other cruel exactions of his, have helped to evolve the terrible legend of the Mouse-Tower. A mighty draught Once upon a time in the high castle called Rheingrafenstein near Kreuznach, the flower of the knights belonging to the Rhine country were assembled.
Rheingrafenstein, perched upon its sable foundations of porphyry, is the scene of a legend which tells of a terrible bargain with Satan that theme so frequent in German folk-tale.
But the donkey emitted such a bray that, recognizing the nature of his prize, the Fiend in sheer disgust dropped it and vanished in a sulphurous cloud, to the accompaniment of inextinguishable laughter from Rheingrafenstein. Rüdesheim and its Legends The town of Rüdesheim is a place famous in song and story, and some of the legends connected with it date from almost prehistoric times.
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