Tradition / Region: Luxembourg Mythology
Alternate Names: The Headless Burgher, Bralhof Ghost
Category: Ghost
The Myth
Near the Bralhof farm between Merl and Rollingergrund, in the area where an old windmill once stood, a headless man was said to appear.
A brave man named Johann Br., who came from a nearby village, once encountered the figure there. Wherever he tried to move, the headless man blocked his path. The same thing later happened to the narrator’s brother when he returned home from town one evening. He reached his house breathless and in terror, struggling to open the door quickly enough to escape the apparition.
People said that the ghost was the spirit of a burgher who had once lived there and whose memory remained infamous in the area.
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Sources
sagen.at contributors. (n.d.). Der Mann ohne Kopf bei Straßen. In sagen.at, from https://www.sagen.at/texte/sagen/luxemburg/Mann_ohne_Kopf.html
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