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Girl With Ravens & Bratislava Witch

Known as the girl with ravens or the bratislava witch statue

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Near the Bratislava Castle as you ’ re leaving through Nicholas Gate, there sits a bronze statue of a woman with crazy hair and surrounded by ravens This statue was created in the 1980s by a sculptor Tibor Bartfay He dedicated this statue to the memory of the women who burned or drowned in the Danube river who got accused of being witches in Bratislava, Slovakia The burnings took place throughout the 1600s where women were accused of witchcraft and flying on broomsticks As this statue sits, no one can resist to stop and take a selfie with the Bratislava Witch and her ravens

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