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2®K THE! WHITE ) GHOST; GW BEBIilJSr:.
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Dating Of Its Foundation Its Origin Alik...
his despair so affected her , that her previous ; great .. anxiety for tlie well-being- and _well-doing- of all connected , with her became an allr
absorbing- passion , surviving- even the dissolution of her mortal frame , so that when her body had in due time been committed !
tothe grave , her spirit still lingered on earth to watch over her race . , Whenin 1539 Peter Woeh , the last of her grandsonswas born
she ; was , seen , day and . nig ht , in the . nursery , dressed , as in her , lifetime in the white widow ' s garb she- had- worn ,, inciting the
nurses to diligence and care , and often , herself tending and caressing the child . It happened , however , one day , that the turn
towatch hy the cradle fell to a very young- girl , quite a new inmate of ' the castle , who , overcome by her youthful tendency to sleep , had
been Indulging for a time ; in oblivion , when on suddenly waking up she . saw , to her great alarm , an apparition in white fondling
the child and mournfully sighing over it . Boldly resolving if : possible to avert any evil which might otherwise result from ,
her temporary negligence of her charge , the girl exclaimed , in theform , of exorcism , _" for such cases duly made , and : provided , "
u < Praise All good the g JLord hosts . of ¦ hosts . " - '
A gentle , hint , of which however the shadowy lady took no notice , so that the girl , finding milder means ineffectual , betook herself to *
a stronger spell , and solemnly exclaimed , "In the name of Jesus Christ the Saviour , I . conjure thee to let this child alone , and .
return , to the place whence thou earnest / ' evidently supposing this . to be , no very desirable locality . The irresistible conjuration was
spoken , and poor Perchta could not disobey it , but . turning with a look of deepest , sorrow to her who had uttered the fatal words _,.,
exclaimed , ' _'foolish and unworthy girl , thus to ban me from ray own ; for know that it is you , who only yesterday first set foot in the
castle , who are the stranger here , and . not I , who was oncQ . Its mistressand whom you should have honoured as such . I go , but
woe unto , you if you neglect this child ; nevertheless , it may yet be well with you if you tend him carefully , and when he is grown up
then tell him how I loved him , and show him that it was through this wall that I was wont to visit him . " So saying she immediately
_disapj _^ eared through the wall , and never more by _nig-ht or day was the gentle white-robed spectre seen to glide through _Kosenbui'g
again . In due time the young man , Peter Woeh , heard the tale from the lips of ' her whom ho had never known but as the most
faithful of- nurses , and after long pondering it , at length had an . opening- made in the . "wall at the part specified , and found
thereconcealed a large treasure , a farewell gift from the loving spirit that had . watched beside his cradle .
Banished thus by the indiscretion of . a , servant girl from the post of guardianship over her direct descendants , Perchta attached
herself henceforth to . their nearest connexion , the Hohenzollerns , the .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1863, page 234, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061863/page/18/
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