Tradition / Region: Luxembourg Mythology
Alternate Names: Washerwomen under the Bridge
Category: Ghost
The Myth
One evening a woman was walking past the Fötzbusch forest between Götzingen and Kapellen. When she reached the runners’ bridge near the woods, she sat down to rest.
As she sat there, she suddenly heard from beneath the arch of the bridge a noise like the beating of laundry in water, as though several washerwomen were at work below. Yet no one could be seen.
Thus the bridge was remembered as a place where the unseen washer spirits labored in the darkness beneath the stones.
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Sources
sagen.at contributors. (n.d.). Die Wäscherinnnen unter der Läuferbrücke. In sagen.at, from https://www.sagen.at/texte/sagen/luxemburg/Waescherinnen_Laeuferbruecke.html
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