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232 THE WHITE GHOST OF BERLIN.
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Dating Of Its Foundation Its Origin Alik...
literally " your love , " employed by princely personages in addressing- each , other , instead of the deferential " your Highness" of
inferiors ) exclaimed hastily , " It ' s ten o ' clock , ener liebchen ! " and immediately vanished . The Princess was so terrified that she
almost expired of fright . But it was not merely for the temporal prosperity of those she
favoured that the White Lady cared , for she watched over their spiritual welfare also , and when death was impending over the
3 _£ osenburgs or any family related to them , she would be continually seen hovering about with mournful aspect ; and even sometimes
appeared to the dying to warn them to turn their thoughts to heavenly things . An instance is recorded when one who was allied
to the _Rosenburg race , being threatened with death so suddenly that there was not even time to send for a confessor , she had
provided for the emergency by appearing" to Father _^ Nicholas Pistorius with the requ . est that he would make all speed to the spot
indicated , taking the sacrament with him ; the holy father arrived in consequence just in time to give the viaticum and speed the
dying to heaven . These and many similar stories related of the White Lady
, partly as traditions handed down from father to son , _^ _psurtly as records preserved in the family archives , became at length so
generally spoken of , that the learned spirit-seer Berengar , otherwise called Johannes jRist , whose curiosity had been excited by them
undertook to travel into Austria in order to convince himself of the , _realty of the ghostly manifestations . The lady did not keep him
long waiting , for he had hardly arrived at the first place where the _Hosenburgs owned a Castle , before he saw her looking out of the
window of an old ruined tower , attired in white and with , a widow ' s veilbut thrown back so that her fair mild countenance could be
, distinctly seen , as he stood by broad day-light in the market-place . Eagerly inquiring of the by-standers if this were really the "White
Lady of whom he had heard so much , they all testified to the fact , relating all they knew concerning her , and while they were thus
speaking , and pointing to the apparition , it became fainter and fainter till at last it entirely vanished . Berengar then thoroughly
searched the old tower , but found it a mere mouldering ruin , every fioor and staircase crumbling in decay . After this he
was shewn over the better preserved Castle , where he inspected with special care all the family portraits ; and his attention being
arrested by one which seemed indistinctly to represent a noble matron in the garb of a widow , he had it taken down and cleaned
when an inscription came to light announcing that the subject of , the portrait was " Perchta , Countess of _Rosenburg , " while all the
residents in the Schloss , who had long been familiar with the household goblin , were unanimous in pronouncing' the figure to be
" the very image of the White Lady . " The delighted Berengar ,
232 The White Ghost Of Berlin.
232 THE WHITE GHOST OF BERLIN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1863, page 232, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061863/page/16/
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