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Let us have a look at mysteries of the Malbork castle.
I am Dr Jan Pajak - a brother of Czeslaw Pajak who created this web site.
I know that my brother does not believe in mysteries and in unexplained
phenomena, thus would not write about them. On the other hand, writing about a medieval
castle without mentioning mysteries that surround it, would not be a complete job.
So I convinced my brother to allow me to additionally include this my personal mystery
page into his Web site.
I start from introducing myself. I am a scientist (a former professor at three
subsequent universities), whose scientific hobby actually includes researching
various mysteries and unexplained phenomena. My life - full of travel and adventures,
is described quite well in subsection F1 (volume 5), of the English monograph [8]
"Totalizm". You can review my accomplishments in the area of mysteries
by having a look at some of the Mystery Sites
that I listed in the Menu from the left margin. Especially interesting description
of mysteries that I investigated, can be found in subsections E1 and F1 of volumes
4 and 5 in my monograph [8] entitled
Totalizm
that you can download free of charge from all the Web sites, that
on this Menu from the left margin are marked as Text of
[8] in:. I am also a frequent visitor in the Malbork castle - after all
my brother lives near to it (I visit my brother quite regularly). Here is a photograph
of myself and my wife taken by this castle.
 Myself (Dr Jan Pajak) and my wife, by the Malbork Castle.
During reading of this page it is worth to know that:
-You can see the enlargement of each photograph
from this page, simply by clicking on this photograph. When you finish with looking at
such a photo enlarged, click BACK to return to this page.
- More of this type of information is provided in instructions from
the final part of this Web page.
(1) A UFO base underground of the Malbork Castle:
In order to hide effectively from People,
but at the same time have an easy access to them to carry out abductions,
UFOnauts developed on Earth an unique system of underground chambers and tunnels, which
serve as secret bases for hiding their vehicles. The reason behind such hidden
activities of UFOnauts on Earth, are explained exactly in subsection E1 (volume 4)
of my monograph [8]
Totalizm mentioned earlier.
These UFO vehicles hover inside such underground chambers,
and UFOnauts abduct people to these UFOs, without the danger of anyone seeing their activities.
The favourite areas where UFOnauts maintain such underground chambers/bases are all lone hills
that dominate the surrounding area. In Poland there is already several such hills with UFO bases identified,
some of which include Sobotka, Lysa Gora, and Babia Gora. More information about them is
contained in my Polish treatise [4C] "Tunele UFO spod Babiej Gory", available free of
charge from the mystery Web sites listed on the left margin of this page. There are
various rumours, that there is also such an underground UFO base under the Malbork castle.
The castle meets all the requirements imposed for such a UFO base, because it is located
on a small hill that dominates the area. Also it is an old civilisation centre. These
rumors seem to be confirmed additionally with numerous sightings of fast flying UFOnauts
in the castle itself. Usually such fast flying UFOnauts are noticed as flashes of white
or colourful light (some witnesses compare them to huge electric sparks or ball lightnings)
that run either downwards or upwards through various compartments or cellars of the castle.
One such fast flying UFOnaut was even captured on a photograph shown below - have a look
at this unique photo.
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A couple of photographs, both taken in the same area of corridor in the Malbork Castle.
The upper one supposed to just be a photograph of a female tourist who looked at these
corridors. But by a coincident this photograph captured also a fast moving (and slightly
spinning) UFOnaut which was flying downward through this particular corridor of the
Malbork Castle. A colourful UFOnaut, which descends fast downward to the area under
this corridor, is visible relatively well on this photograph. A more detailed analysis
of similar photographs of UFOnauts and UFOs, is carried out in a Polish monograph [4c]
that is disseminated (free of charge) from the Polish internet site
UFO-album.prv.pl.
When the photographer (who took this photo) realised
that some colourful creature flashed out in front of him when he took the first photo,
just in case he repeated the shot. Therefore the lower photograph shows the same area,
taken a while later. The UFOnaut is already gone (i.e. it reached a UFO vehicle parked
in the underground base).
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Of course, various debunkers telepathically
manipulated by UFOnauts are going to argue that this photograph does not show at all
any fast moving UFOnaut. In such a case I would propose to ask them for the exact
explanation what actually was captured on this photo, and why this something moved
so fast in a dark corridor of the Malbork castle, rotating during the motion. Let us
now consider hypothetically impossibility of other possible explanations for this
photograph, which would disagree that it is a fast moving UFOnaut:
(a) Ghost. If it would a ghost not an UFOnaut,
then firstly why it is colourful not white (ghosts supposed to always be white, not
colourful). Secondly, how this "sceptical" person would then explain the capturing
of a ghost on a photograph. After all the existence of ghosts is even more difficult
to prove scientifically than the existence of UFOs (for example, the existence of
UFOnauts is already conclusively proven with a formal scientific proof that is
published in subsection J2 of English monograph [1e] and in subsection P2 of
English monograph [1/4]). Furthermore, how it happened that it was not only captured
on the photograph, but also seen by the photographer with his own eyes (after all,
this was because of seeing of this glowing colourful UFOnaut that the photographer
decided to repeat the shot, because was suspecting that the previous photo would not
come out well spoiled by the UFOnaut).
(b) An object thrown.
Other hypothetical possibility, is that someone thrown some kind of an object, and
that this object was captured by the photographing person. But also this possibility
is not confirmed by the evidence at hand. For example, firstly, the object on the
photograph flies along a straight line and slanted towards the direction of gravity
field. But if someone throws an object in a small corridor, then this object must
either fly along the curved trajectory, or fly straight downwards along the force
lines of gravity field. Secondary how it is possible, that this object comes from
a brick-laid solid ceiling in which there is no any hole or a window. If it would
be a thrown object, than it could not come from a ceiling, and its trajectory
would need either bend at some distance from the ceiling, or bounce from the ceiling
(consider laws of physics that govern principles of bouncing of objects, which then
would NOT be fulfilled by this particular object). Tertiary, where all
these effects of magnetic lens that are so typical for magnetic propulsion of
UFOnauts come from. These effects are actually induced by the UFOnaut captured
on the photograph analysed here. They can be noticed due to distortions of
pictures of wall and people that are behind the flying UFOnaut (more details
about the action of magnetic lens in UFO propulsion systems can be found
in chapter F of newest English monograph [1/4]). Fourthly, why this object has features
sticking out from it, that correspond to parts of human body (e.g. on the photograph
can be distinguished trajectories of hands, corpse, legs, etc.). Furthermore,
why these parts of the body keep during a flight in exactly the same positions
in relationship to each other in spite that the object is spinning (e.g. if the
object is a sweater, or a shirt, thrown by someone, the pressure of air during the
flight would cause it to change its shape). All this together, only reinforces
the certainty that this photograph actually captured a fast moving UFOnaut, NOT
any object that was thrown into air.
If this photograph does not show anything other
than an UFOnaut - as it was explained above, than even if someone is a hard-core
sceptic, still have no other option but to admit, that these glowing figures that
move fast in compartments of the Malbork castle, which are seen in there by various
people, and which cannot be explained otherwise than fast moving UFOnauts that
fly to (or from) their underground base, actually are UFOnauts indeed.
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Invisible for human eyes UFOnauts were also
photographed when they hover motionlessly in the midair, and thus when they are well visible.
One black-white photograph of such a motionless UFOnaut is shown on the left side.
It shows a girl with flowers (Elizabeth Templon) who was then photographed.
But when the photograph was developed, it turned out that it shows also a UFOnaut
wearing a space suit and a hermetic helmet. This UFOnaut is excellently visible as
it hovers half of its height above the ground level near the head of the girl.
(Please notice the white colour of its suit, which results from the black-white
photograph and from the unique glow that always accompanies the state of telekinetic
flickering, and that in subsection L6.1 from volume 7 of monograph [8] "Totalizm"
is described in details under the name of the "extraction glow".) This photograph was
taken on Sunday, 24 May 1964, by father of Elisabeth, fireman, around 5 miles from their
home in Carsle, USA, on the banks of river Solway Firth. The photographing person
reported, that at the time of taking this photograph, a strange "electrified" atmosphere
was prevailing, and also that local cows were behaving very strangely, although apart from
family of the girl, there was no-one around. (It is worth to highlight here, that
various animals, including cats, dogs, sheep, and cows, have so designed eyes, that
they are able to see UFOnauts in the state of telekinetic flickering, even if these
UFOnauts remain invisible for human eyes.) The photograph itself, and also its
description, are published on page 51 of an excellent book [2] by Jenny Randles,
"Alien Contact - The First Fifty Years", Collins Brown (London House, Great
Eastern Wharf, Rarkgate Road, London SW11 4NQ), 1997, ISBN 1-85585-454-6,
144 pages, pb. The more exact interpretation of photograph of this invisible
for human eyes UFOnaut is contained in subsection B2 of the Polish treatise
[4c] (see there Figure Z_4_B2) which is disseminated (free of charge), amongst
others, from the following Web sites:
UFO-album.prv.pl,
telepathy.50megs.com, and
telekinesis.50megs.com.
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There is a historic evidence that UFOnauts were
seen in the Malbork castle quite frequently,
practically since the medieval times. There are various stories about devils seen in connection
with this castle (as the recent results of UFO research indicate, the name devils
was used in medieval times to describe extraterrestrial creatures that presently we call
with the name UFOnauts.
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To the right there are shown two photographs of
medieval devils. The upper one of them
actually illustrates a devil which was frequently seen in the Malbork castle in medieval
times. It is presented as a small figurine called corbel, around 25 cm tall.
You can see this devil at the entrance to toilets used in medieval times by Teutonic
Knights (i.e. the same toilets that according to rumours, these knights used to murder
inconvenient people).
An interesting aspects of this corbel is that it presents a UFOnaut flying in a squat
position. As we know this from magical demonstrations of David Copperfield in his
famous flight through the Great Canyon, such a squat position is the most comfortable during
the use of personal propulsion of UFOnauts (more information about personal propulsion
of UFOnauts you can find in my English monographs [1e] and [2e] available through the mystery
sites). Frequent flights of UFOnauts in such squat position are also reported by numerous
eye witnesses (these reports are published in my monographs [1e] and [2e]). Note also that
the facial features of the UFOnaut/devil from this corbel correspond to one of races of
UFOnauts that intrude our space quite frequently. This race is well illustrated
in the famous American film Fires in the sky that was to document a case of actual
abduction a person to a UFO. Charakteristic features of this race are that these UFOnauts
are very small in height, that their faces are full of wrinkles (like faces of very
old people), and that they are increadibly ugly for humans - actually they look repulsive.
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![A corbel with a sculpture of devil from the Malbork Castle, shown as Figure C4 in my Polish treatise [4B] and also as Figure N5 in my English monograph [1/4].](jan/n5_1.1_3.jpg)
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The lower photo shows a sculpture of a different
race of devil. This sculpture most probably originates from France. It was published
in a Journal entitled "The Unexplained". According to my research, practically it
is the best sculpture of devil so-far, which managed to shows typical facial features
of a different race of UFOnauts. This race is most close in appearance to humans.
Therefore it keeps on Earth the largest number of cosmic spies and saboteurs
that mix with people on streets and interfere into
all matters concerning our civilisation. Out of facial details that differ for that
race of UFOnauts from these of people, the most characteristic is a pointed forward,
sharply-ended chin, which has two distinct bulges. These bulges give to the chin
an appearance of a miniature human bottom - see the photograph. Such pointed chin
looking like a small human bottom is a very characteristic facial detail of that race
of UFOnauts (and also medieval "witches" - the word "witches" is another term that in
past used to be attributed to creatures which presently are called UFOnauts). Many
present UFO abductees describe facial features of UFOnauts to be almost identical
to this devil from the lower photo.
(2) A Statue of Virgin Mary which still carries out miraculous healings:
Until the Second World War, there was a huge, 8 meters tall, stucco statue of
Virgin Mary located in the bay formed inside the eastern elevation of the Holy Mother
Mary church from the Upper Malbork Castle. Here is how a Polish historic publication
entitled "Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego i Innych Krajow Slowianskich"
published in Warszawa in 1884, on page 943 under the word "Malbork", describes
that figure - in my free translation (the original, Polish wording of this
description you can find on the Polish version of that page that you can visit
after clicking the Polish flag on the header):
"Presbyterial closes an octagon, in the
central field of which instead of the window a bay was created. Inside of the
bay there is a colossal, well-preserved and perfectly restored figure of Virgin
Mary, the patron of that town, with Holy Infant Jesus on her hands.
The height of that figure is 8 meters, while the Infant is 2 meters tall.
This old figure is from times of Winrych von Kniprode (1351-82). It was laid
on the solid core from colourful mosaic. It is almost an unicity. Apart from
nearby although smaller version from Kwidzyn (beheading of St. John) and the
final judgement in the Cathedral of St. Wit in Prague, the medieval mosaics of
that size do not exist except for Italy. Golden background of the bay and the
blue frame around that was sprinkled with stars, are also made of similar mosaic;
staniol (i.e. mineral - my comment) placed on a piece of glass, and covered
with another piece of glass, produces gold colour. This figure, facing East,
is of Venetian workmanship; in Venice such mosaics were a normal feature,
while masters of Teutonic Knights used to have their residence in there."
Because this statue was so old, it was
subjected to continuous worship throughout all these centuries. Therefore
it was saturated with energy of countless prayers - as such being able to carry
out miracles. For example it was able to grant healings to sick people. Unfortunately,
apart from religious significance, this statue was also a political symbol of oppression
of the land that it overlooked, carried out in the name of God. According to an old
prophecy described in next item, this symbol of religious oppression was destroyed
during the battle for the castle at the end of World War 2. Here is how this statue
used to look like:
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Here are two old photographs of this stucco statue. The upper photograph
originates from a view card dated in 1930s and published by Albert Frisch from
Berlin. It shows the head of this figure, with Holy Infant Jesus sitting on
her hands.
The lower photograph originates from German so-called War Series,
and was published by the Deutsche Kunstverlag in Berlin around 1940.
It shows the entire statue of the Virgin Mary together with the bay
in the church elevation in which this statue was located.
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When I was on my subsequent visit in Malbork in May 1995, I got a powerful allergy
irritation in my lungs. I used to cough almost constantly. On my birthday (25 May
1995) I was just drinking to celebrate the birthday, when my brother told me about
miraculous healings that took place in front of this stucco statue, and added
that if this statue still exist, I could ask it for the healing of my allergic lungs
irritation. Although this idea was just a table talk on the occasion of drinking,
I though that it is worth of checking, because it coincided with the subject of my
research. I am the author of a scientific theory called the
Concept of Dipolar Gravity,
that is described in volumes 6 and 7 of my monograph [8]
Totalizm mentioned earlier.
According to the magnetic
interpretation of time explained in subsection L7 from volume 7 of monograph [8]
Totalizm
(that describes this Concept of Dipolar Gravity), if at any time something existed
or will exist somewhere in the universe, it still does exist over there right
now, and we can move to it through a shift in time that can be accomplished at level
of the counter-world. So I decided to have a go and try the healing. Three of us
(i.e. myself, my wife, and my brother) went to the area in front of the statue, where
I was to ask for a miraculous healing. I must say that I was not in a religious mood,
because I was a bit drunk (after all, it was my birthday). But my cough was so bad,
that I still decided to have a go with the request for healing. My brother and my wife
were so sure of the impossibility that a miracle could happen, that they would not
even wait until I ask for it, but they continued with walking, leaving me behind
(probably it is some kind of a law, that miracles must always happen when no-one is watching).
So I looked at the exact spot where this stucco statue used to stay, and asked
it in my thoughts to demonstrate to me the healing powers, and to
heal my cough for the time of my staying in Malbork. When I only finished my request,
I spotted a source of white light beam that appeared in the centre of a bay where the
statue used to stay. Initially a though flashed through my mind that there must be
a mirror located in there, and that it reflects the sun. But then I realised that
the sun is just located on exactly the opposite side of the church, and the bay for
the statue is hidden in the shadow. When the beam of this white light hit my lungs,
I started to feel a kind of cooling and tingling sensation. It felt as if along my
bronchial tube a layer of ice was melting. I was quite shocked. The entire experience
lasted only around 30 seconds. I rushed to my brother and my wife, which were
walking only around 50 meters from me turned back to the statue, to report them
about the event, while the melting and tingling sensation finished. Starting from
this moment of time I would not cough even a single time while staying in Malbork.
Later, by looking at old photographs of this statue, I realised that the beam of
light that I saw was emitted from the area, where on the original statue the
prominent Sacred Heart of Holy Mother Mary was located.
The matter of this miraculous healing that
the next turn though. As soon as I sit in the train to leave Malbork, and the train
crossed a bridge on the Nogat river, my violent coughing rapidly returned. I realised
then that in the wording that I used, I did not ask the statue for a permanent healing,
but only for a demonstration of its healing powers. Thus in order to be healed
permanently I needed to repeat my request. Because I was just leaving Malbork, I decided
to go to any other statue of Virgin Mary, and ask this other statue to redirect my prayers
to the Malbork one. My next stop was in Warsaw, so I went to the Holy Mother Mary church
located next to the Palace of the Polish President, and asked the statue of the Virgin
Mary from that church to redirect my prayers to that Malbork one. I asked again for
granting me a healing, this time a permanent one. And it was granted to me. Incidentally,
when this permanent healing occurred, no any white light or other sensations repeated
themselves. I simply stopped to have my urge to cough. This means that the first healing
experience was really spectacular because I requested to demonstrate the healing powers
of this statue to me, while the second one was quiet, because I asked just for a permanent
healing, not for demonstration of powers.
There are various lessons to be learned from this my
experience. For example, two most important lessons that I believe I learned, are:
(1) that if I ever ask for any miracle, I should design more carefully what
exact wording I am going to use when asking for it - after all, I may again be granted
exactly what I asked for, (2) that "bad may do as much good, as good may do bad",
means that even medieval symbols of oppression and injustice exerted in the name of God,
sometimes may be used for carrying out good deeds.
The mechanism behind a computer-like operation of the
Malbork statue is well explained in volume 6 of my monograph [8]
Totalizm. As my research indicate
this, the statue acts this way, because its powers originate mainly from the moral energy
that was transferred to it by all these countless people who prayed to it. In turn this moral
energy that the statue accumulated allows it to perform (in a computer-like fashion) the
action that people ask it for. Actually it behaves in a very similar manner as these wooden
pagan totems from the island of Borneo, that I described in subsections B3.3 and K5.7 from
volumes 2 and 6 of my monograph [8], and that also are able to cause similar healings
and other supernatural effects. For example during may professorship in Malaysia
(1993 to 1998), quite famous was a tree from the vicinity of Ipoh, which (the tree)
was an object of cult of a local tribe, and was a destination of numerous prayers.
But this tree stood on the path of a highway that was build through this area.
Every worker that approached this tree with a chainsaw, fall down covered in blood,
as if the tree was able to do to people exactly what people intended to do to it.
About supernatural powers of the figure
discussed here quite a lot of information is contained in old manuscripts. Here
is an example of what is written in "Borck: Echo sepulcralis" in the manuscript
dated in 1765, page 157 (in my own translation - for the original wording see the
Polish version of this Web page):
" After the end of famous Grunwald (Tannenberg)
battle that took place on 15 July 1410, the victorious Polish and Lithuanian army approached
Malbork, although the first fore-posts reached Malbork on 26 July, in spite that
the distance was only around 15 miles (old Polish mile = 8.834 km: my comment).
This time was used by the secular commander of the castle, Henry Reuss von Plauen,
who collected reserves where he could and fortified the castle, while soon he
was joined by the remainder of the Teutonic army from Grunwald. Then he burned
Malbork town, destroyed the bridge on Nogat river, and decided to defend the castle
until the end. So Polish king started to attack the castle, but his stony bullets
were unable to penetrate good bricks of walls and disintegrated during impacts;
in the meantime small ashelons of calvary were spreading terror and destruction.
But the lack of food forced Henry von Plauen to start negotiations with the king;
he offered to Poland the provinces of Pomorze, ziemia chelminska, and ziemia michalowska;
only Prussia that was taken from pagans supposed to remain with Teutonic Knights.
Poles should accept these good conditions, but dignitaries from the king's advisory
committee and the majority of soldiers insisted to remove Teutonic Knights
completely from Prussia, and in their opinion this was only depending on taking
Malbork and several other castles. So Polish king Jagiello gave the negative reply.
But from then onwards good luck started to desert the attackers; the lack of
good food, and the heat brought illnesses to their camp; even worse, rumours started
to spread that a cannon master, who wanted to hit the figure of Virgin Mary in
the castle church become blind. Rumours were saying that when his superior started
to scoff of this cannon master, and himself aimed at the figure, the cannon
exploded and killed a Tartar leader who stood nearby; Tartars become so angry
that they killed with their shields the courageous superior; he supposed to be
the same, who at Grunwald first hit with his spear the leader of Teutonic Knights
the Great Master Ulryk von Jungingen."
(3) Illustration of the fulfilment of old prophecies:
In our busy lives we frequently encounter various
stories regarding old prophecies. We usually take them with a pinch of salt - just
senseless talks of old folks. But actually if one follows carefully stories behind
such old prophecies, it turns out that they always fulfil themselves. Only that
their fulfilment for many people is obvious after the fact, not before.
The Malbork castle actually provides an excellent illustration how seriously we
should take such old prophecies.
The stucco statue described above,
had an old prophecy attached to it. This prophecy stated, that "as long as the statue is
standing, the land that it overlooks is going to remain under German control".
Whatever people, who knew it, used to think about this prophecy, in the final
count it fulfilled itself. The statue has fallen down at the end of World War 2,
and simultaneously the land that it overlooked gained the freedom from the German
annexation.
Volume 6 of monograph [8]
Totalizm (especially subsection
K4.1.1) describes various laws which relate to old prophecies. According to these
laws: (a) old prophecies are actually insights into the future expressed
in simple words - as such they always fulfil themselves, and (b) old prophecies,
as well as objects to which they are attached, obey the law of "time independent cause
and effect" (this law states that "in all matters controlled by laws of the counter-world,
a cause can become an effect, and an effect can become a cause"). Explaining these laws in
simple worlds, we should not joke about, or fool around with, old prophecies, because
they all are deadly serious and for sure are going to fulfil themselves. Furthermore,
we should be extremely cautious in our treatment of objects to which any such old
prophecy is attached. For example, any attempt of rebuilding this statue from Malbork
(which still is saturated with energy of countless prayers) could trigger significant
political changes in Europe. Thus, it is much safer for all involved, if this powerful
statue and its prophecy remains in the past. After all, when it stays in the past,
it still can be revisited by prayers and requests of faithful people, while it does
not force any changes in the political status quo of our planet.
Subsections F1 and G2 (volume 5) of monograph
[8] discuss several other old prophecies, which are just about to fulfil themselves
in not-too-distant future. For example they explore known facts about an old prophecy
on the arrival of Second Jesus to Earth when the Euro currency is introduced in Europe.
(This prophecy states that Second Jesus is to arrive on Earth like a thief, when the Roman
Empire is revived. In turn this revival of Roman Empire was symbolically accomplished
on 4 January 1999 through the introduction of common currency in Europe.) These subsections
are also point our attention at another old prophecy stating that "spark is going to
come out of Poland" which tries to convey
the message that the renewal of our civilisation is going to be started in Poland.
It is worth to take notice of these prophecies, as they tell us about events which
inevitably are going to come, so we better are fully aware of their arrival. The
castle in Malbork is a vivid proof that no matter how powerful something may look,
it still is going to come down one day.
(4) Virgins cemented in towers, romantic heroes:
Almost every old castle has numerous romantic stories attached to it. In the
Malbork castle until today a tower is standing, in which Aldona supposed to be
cemented, lover of the hero from poem by Mickiewicz, named Konrad Wallenrod
(actually the real name of that cemented lady was Dorota). Here is what the
mentioned earlier publication "Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego i
Innych Krajow Slowianskich" published in Warszawa in 1884, on page 943 under
the word "Malbork", writes about this unique tower (in my own translation):
"Not far from the slaughter house,
by the Nogat riverside, there is a tower called "Buttermilk Tower" (in Polish:
Wieza Maslankowa), 25 meters tall; this name commonly used is based on the
story that supposedly peasants from Zulawy, because of their wealth, gained such a
pride, that the Great Master, in order to temper their pride, ordered them to
use milk byproducts to build this tower. But most probably this is just a story,
because this tower build in 1412 was originally called "Rounded", while the name
"Buttermilk Tower" was given to it only around 1596, when the Malbork commanding
officer Kostka, 4 advisers from Lichnow, who delayed the supply of butter and buttermilk,
ordered to lock in this tower for punishment. In this tower poet Mickiewicz
placed the heroine Aldone in his poem "Konrad Wallenrod"; perhaps he heard
of the virgin being cemented alive in there, although it was blessed Dorota,
who was born in 1347 in Matowy, while the last years of her life she spend
in cathedral in Kwidzyn, where she died walled up in a cell in 1394."
So much in the above dictionary
about that tower. I should add that the tower was destroyed in 1945, and
reconstructed in 1958, and also that on the top of it is placed a clearly
visible from a long distance a metal plate figurine of a woman making butter
in a churn.
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To the right shown is a photograph
of the Buttermilk Tower in the Malbork castle. It was in this tower
that at least one female was locked alive.
As this is known about habits of various people in power from medieval times,
such towers were their favourite places for stacking individuals that were
inconvenient for them. For example, when some time ago a similar tower
was opened in Paczkow town (southern part of Poland), a room was discovered
in it, filled up with human skeletons up until the ceiling. As it turned out,
people who ruled Paczkow, had this bad habit of throwing into that tower
through a small window in the ceiling, every person whom they would not
like for some reason. Because that room had only one entrance, that in the
ceiling, whoever was thrown into it, never managed to get out. Thus probably
this poor woman locked in the tower shown here still was quite lucky,
as she managed to finish her life cemented in a cell in Kwidzyn cathedral,
not in the dark interior of that tower.
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The Buttermilk Tower
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(5) Medieval tunnels under the Nogat river:
Practically all medieval castles had underground tunnels which were used as their hidden
communication or escape roots. Typical design and properties of such tunnels are well
illustrated in the small Polish township called Paczkow, which still has medieval walls
around it (Paczkow is located around 80 kilometres to the south from Wroclaw). Such medieval
tunnels that were discovered around Paczkow, revealed that they were usually so designed,
that a messanger (or an escapee) could ride a horse in them. Usually they started in a well
of a given castle, or from one of the hidden cellars. The Malbork castle is no exception
from this rule. Before the World War 2 a huge underground tunnel going under the Nogat
river was accidentially unearthed, and then covered again. A photograph of this tunnel
was published in a local newspaper.
(6) Hidden tresures:
As every old castle, also the Malbork castle is overgrown with numerous legends regarding
hidden treasures from various periods of its history. This section is to describe some of them.
The gradual presentation of further mysteries and curious aspects of the Malbork castle,
and further details regarding mysteries already discussed here, is to be continued.
Therefore, please feel free to visit this page again.
Instructions:
(A) In order to analyse better any of the photographs shown here,
it is useful to save it to your own computer. Then you can enlarge it to the
size when all the details are clearly visible, or to print it in colours, etc.
Notice that in order to save any photograph from a Web page, it is enough
to right click on this photograph, and when a small menu of commands appears
after such click, choose the command that reads Save Picture As. Optionally
you can click the icon of a diskette that appears near the top of this picture.
(B) With possible questions you can contact me at the email
address:
janpajak@aotearoa.gen.nz.
(C) To protect anonymity and privacy of the sources of information
utilised here, details of these sources are not listed on purpose. However,
they are known to me and reliable.
The most recent update of this page: 4 April 2004.
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