The familiar cave girl of the cartoonsdragged toward a cave by a club-lugging maleis usually smiling, as if well pleased with her prospects. This cheerful view of history got a setback last week from evidence unearthed in Germany.
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...
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