The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-09-13
BERLlN'S SPECTRAL LADY.
A CURIOUS ANNIVERSARY TO BE CELE-
DRAFTED THIS YEAR AT THE
GERMAN CAPITAL.

years ago since The Whlte Lady OF
the Hohenzollerns first made her
appearance on any stage. This
event took place at the old castle in
Bayreuth before the death of the
Brandenburg Elector, Albrecht
Achilles. Of late years nothing
positive has been heard of the mys-
FERROUS spectral visitor, though she
was reputed to have been seen in
Berlin before the death of the young
Prince Waldmar, and two years ago
a paragraph appeared in one of the
Berlin papers to the effect that she
had been seen in some of the apart
ments of the old castle. There was
considerable excitement among the
court officials at the time, and
searching inquiries were made in
order to learn who had given the in
formation to the public, not because
the officials attached any Importance
to the appearance of the White
Lady, but because they feared it
might possibly have an injurious
effect upon the health of the En-
peror, who is not proof against such
things. For the White Lady is
natural appendage, so to speak, to
the divinity of the Hohenzollerns.
No great reigning family can be
considered as complete without its
family ghost or protectress.
The original White Lady is gen.
orally assumed by writers to have
been widowed Countess Kunigunda
of Orlamunde, who lived in her
castle at Plassenburg, near Bayreuth.
This lady is said to have fallen in
love with young and handsome
knight, the Burgrave Albert of
Nuremberg, and her affection, so it
is said, YVES not unappreciated by
the gallant cavalier. But when the
Countess expressed the wish for
marriage Albert replied that he
could not enter the holy bonds of
matrimony $50 long as four eyes
were in existence" Having two
children by her former husband, the
Countess very naturally imagined
that these were the obstacles to her
union with the knight, and so she
killed them by running one of her
golden hair-pins through their skulls
into the brain. When Albert learned
what the Countess had done he re-
fused to marry her. The inhuman
mother eventually died, but her
corpse could never rest, and, though
she was duly buried, she used to
appear frequently afterward, fore
boding misfortune and death.
A German historian, Julius Won
Minutoli, notes the fact that ''the
rumor of the spectral parsonage
first appearance was current in 1886
at the old castle at Bayreuth. -
During a long course of years she
appeared in various Hohenzollerr
castles-at Bayreuth, at Anspach
and later at Berlin. She made 8
great stir about the commencement
of the present century ON the occa
sion of the French occupation o
Bayreuth, taking delight in annoy
ing the foes of the Hohenzollerns
From 1906 to 1909, while the French
occupied and were continually pass
ing through the city, she was fire.
quently seen by officers quartere(
in the castle. In 1909 she is re
ported to have appeared to the divi
sional commander, Gen. d'Espagne
the first night of his residence at TIT
castle. She treated him very rudely
pushed his bed into the middle o
the room, and then overturned it
and when the Generals Adjutan
FASTENED to the room on hearing
cries for help, he found his superio
underneath the bed and sufferin!
from deadly fright. When on thu
following morning the General say
the pictures in the castle he pointe,
to the picture of the White Lady
T painted in black dress, with whit
ruff and hood-and exclaimed
"She it was who appeared to mel
He left the castle the same day. ii
fell few weeks afterward in til
n battle of Aspern, the 21st of May
n 1909.
The spectral lady is also said {
;. have appeared to Napoleon l. Will
r at Bayreuth. The first time was tn
l4th'of May, 1912, while he was o
4 his way to Russia. He lived in tn
so-called New Castle. 1t appear
J. that the story of the appearance q
4 the mysterious lady had sprea
r. through the French Army, for
a courier had been sent on frol
Aschaffenburg in advance, with til
command that the Emperor shoul
not be lodged in the apartmer
= wherein the White Lady was wor
r to appear. When Napoleon arrive
l. at Bayreuth he sent for Cour
If Munster and asked if these order
Or had been carried out. Whcth,
{. Napoleon saw the White Lady {
la not cannot be said. The historian
m say, however, that the folowin
y morning, just before his departur,
to he was very pale and restless. II
{: often uttered the words soc maud
choteau," and said TO some of h
suite that he would never stay
that castle again. In August, 1871.
IN Napoleon was once more in BayreutI
G. but though rooms had been prepare
- for him i'm the castle he WouI1 N,