Tradition / Region: Luxembourg Mythology
Alternate Names: The Voices over the Sauer
Category: Ghost
The Myth
In earlier times, people near the Rosport ferry often heard strange sounds at night above the waters of the Sauer River. Ferrymen crossing the river and travelers passing nearby reported hearing loud shouting and singing of children in the air, though nothing could be seen.
Two fishermen working late one night also heard a terrible cry of children above a small pool of the Sauer called the Wog, situated a short distance downstream from the ferry. The sound was so frightening that the men immediately fled in great terror.
Thus people believed that an unseen presence lingered above the river, known only by the cries of children echoing through the night air.
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Sources
sagen.at contributors. (n.d.). Kindergeschrei über der Sauer bei Rosport. In sagen.at, from https://www.sagen.at/texte/sagen/luxemburg/Kindergeschrei.html
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