The Maidens' War

"The Maidens' War" (Czech: Dívčí válka) is a tale in Bohemian tradition about an uprising of women against men.

It first appeared in the twelfth-century Chronica Boemorum of Cosmas of Prague, and later in the fourteenth-century Dalimil's Chronicle.

Bedřich Smetana depicted the Maiden's War in Šárka (1875), which is also part of his collection of symphonic poems, Má vlast.

In the series A Discovery of Witches the emperor of Bohemia, Rudolf II has a hunting bird named Sarka.

Matthew de Clairmont remarks that she is named after the warrior from the Maiden’s War who is rumored to have killed a battalion single-handedly.