Kocourkov

In Czech culture, Kocourkov is a fictional place, whose inhabitants are attributed with doing various stupid things, similar to stories about other towns of fools: (how they sowed salt, how they dragged a bull to the church roof to graze the grass, etc.

[2] Czech poet and journalist Josef Jaroslav Langer [cs] in his 1832 satirical allegory "A Day in Kocourkove [cs]" mentions that a Schwank (satirical verse) "Die Fünsinger Bauern" by German poet Hans Sachs was translated as "Kocourkovští sedláci",[3] which dates the glory of Kocourkov to the 16th century at the latest.

The books record a case with an exemplary punishment of bird thieves - sparrows who brazenly stole grain.

[4] On an occasion of the opening of a new town hall, the musicians were ordered to play all over the city, but they had different repertoire, and produced what is now known as "Kocourkov music".

[6] In 1959 Josef Hiršal and Jiří Kolář wrote a children's book Kocourkov, whose humorous stories were adapted from old German texts.