Outside the Karolinum, which, to this day, is used as a medical faculty office, one can hear the rattle of bones, the bones of the fabled Begging Skeleton, who, in life, stood more than two meters high. This poor chap tried to outwit a Charles University professor who wanted the young man´s skeleton for his collection. Thinking he would surely outlive the professor who was a good 40 years his senior, the young student sold his bones for 30 crowns, which he drank away that night. Sometime after midnight, the drunken student was killed in a brawl and his skeleton came into the professor´s collection.