Drowned Maidens

Pining, love, loss: these are all powerful emotions that can bind once-living people in undeath. Drowned maidens are said to be what remains in the living world when a young woman dies in a shipwreck, separated from a lover or homeland. They long to drown all those who sail into their waters in turn, such that others may know their suffering.
I once heard a sailor recount his experience of one. He'd kicked his way back to shore on a piece of driftwood, looking scared out his wits. All his crew were dead and soggy. 'Her hair,' he said in a croak that chilled my bones. 'It moved like a beast all its own, dragged us down and down to the depths.' He'd apparently blunted his knife cutting through the stuff to make his escape. Pray you never find out if he was telling the whole truth or not. 
Category:Undead