the Mystery of the Woman in White
THE MYSTERY OF THE WHITE LADY Why the White Lady? It is so called because when it appears to people, she is always dressed in white and surrounded by a white halo. What is the origin of this legend? Originally the White Lady was rather a wandering ghost in a castle and attached to a family. Thus, the earliest evidence of the White Lady, come from Germany, where it is said that the White Lady is in fact the fairy Melusine, she appeared in the castle, when a member of his lineage would die. She is also a familiar Families Neuhaus and Rosenberg, where it appears to announce a birth or a death in the family. In France, a White Lady would wander in the castle of Pouancé, Castle dating from the XII century and located in Maine et Loire. It would be the ghost of a woman, a jealous husband would live in walled castle, by attaching a chair at a table where were placed on silver spoons. Moreover, the Marquis de Preaulx who lived in the late eighteent...