Tradition / Region: Luxembourg Mythology
Alternate Names: Manternach Washerwoman
Category: Ghost
The Myth
Two women from Manternach were returning toward evening from Lellig. When they reached the place called Helgenheischen, they saw a short distance from the path, in the middle of the stream, a woman dressed in white.
She sat in the water, splashing and beating it as though with a washing bat. At the sight, the two women were overcome with fear and returned home pale as death.
Thus the stream near Helgenheischen was remembered as the haunt of the ghostly washerwoman who appeared there in the evening.
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Sources
sagen.at contributors. (n.d.). Die Wäscherin bei Manternach. In sagen.at, from https://www.sagen.at/texte/sagen/luxemburg/Waescherin_Manternach.html
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