This article needs additional citations for verification. A White Lady is a type of female ghost ghost bride usa showing in all white reportedly seen in rural areas and associated with some local legend of tragedy.
While White Lady legends are found in many countries around the world, they are most prominent in parts of the United States, Ireland and Great Britain. In popular medieval legend, a White Lady is fabled to appear by day as well as by night in a house in which a family member is soon to die. According to The Nuttall Encyclopædia, these spirits were regarded as the ghosts of deceased ancestresses. Called Dama Branca or Mulher de Branco in Portuguese, the Brazilian Lady in White is said to be the ghost of a young woman who died of childbirth or violent causes. According to legend, she appears as a pale woman in a long white dress or a sleeping gown, and although usually speechless, will occasionally recount her misfortunes.
A popular legend claims that the surroundings of the Montmorency Falls, near Quebec City are haunted by a white lady. The best-known White Lady of the Czech Republic is the ghost of Perchta of Rožmberk at Rožmberk Castle. The most famous white lady of Estonia resides in Haapsalu castle. She is said to be the woman who a canon fell in love with. She hid in the castle as a choir boy, and remained a secret for a long time. But when the Bishop of Ösel-Wiek visited Haapsalu she was discovered, and immured in the wall of the chapel for her crime.
A White Lady was first reported to be seen in the Berliner Schloss in 1625 and sightings were reported up until 1790. Bertha of Rosenberg from Bohemia, overthrown by the heathen Perchta. There is a legend of a White Lady who was a prince’s wife in the town of Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Westphalia. The prince was away, fighting in the Thirty Years’ War, and his wife took a wandering minstrel as a lover. The prince returned unexpectedly, caught the two lovers, and drowned the minstrel in the moat. The White Lady is the name of a female ghost that lives in Verdala Palace in the small forest of Buskett, Rabat, Malta.
Legend has it that many years ago, a woman was to be married to a man she did not love. Her father told her that she must always do as her fiancé said since he was soon to be her husband. On the day of her wedding, she committed suicide by jumping off a balcony. This is why she is to this day known as the White Lady, because she was wearing her wedding gown on the day of her death. According to another Maltese legend, the White Lady of Mdina was killed by her lover after she was forced to marry another man. Many have claimed to see this spirit, always after eight o’clock in the evening.
