Year: 1879

Hohenzollerns--The Old Tradition.


[from The Ne,o Yorh Ilera'dl


A strange story is making the
rounds of the German press, being
an account of the appearance of the
white lady, who is supposed to make
her appearance as Il ghost ut certain
times to announce the death of some
member of the Hohenzollern family.
Very recently the cable brought us
the announcement of the death of
the young Prince Waldemar, of
Prussia. the third son of the Crown
Prince Of Germany, and now we
learn from an account te]egraphed
by an English correspondent from
Berlin that the mysterious lady in
white made her appearance on the
eve OF the young princes death. cit
may interest those who happen to
be learned in Berlin legends to
know" says the correspondent,
"that according to report the white
lady, whose visits always precede
the death of some member of the
Royal Family of Prussia. was seen
on the eve of Prince Waldemar's
death. A soldier on guard at the
Old Palace was the witness of the
apparition, and he in his fright fled
to the guardhouse, when he was at
once arrested for deserting his
post. No further particulars are
vet to hand, and it will probably be
found that the sentinel had been
listening to stories of the occasional
appearance of the mysterious lady
just before he mounted guard, and
That the 'apparition" was something
very human after all. Legendary
history does, however, tell us Of
many visits of the white lady to the
Hohenzollern castle, at Bayreuth,
Ansbach, and at Berlin. She made
a great stir about the commences
nent OF the present century on the
occasion of the French occupation
of Bayreuth, when she took great
delight in annoying the foes of the
Hohenzollerrs. She is also reputed
to have paid visits to Napoleon T.
while he resided in the old
castle ut Bayreuth and Buy
reuth Aargrave was once so un>
gallant rs to pitch q white lady
over the banisters of the stairs, to
find next morning that he had MAIN
cd one of his female domestics for
life. The legend of the appearance
of the woman in white as q premoni~
tress of death has long been con-
nected with the Hohenzolleln family
history. Old Merriam declares that
she has freqently been seen in the
Old Palace at Berlin in the years
1862 and 1863, and Stilling, the
mystic, and the friend of Goethe
was firm believer in the phantom
The last appearance of O white lady
in Europe was in 1873, in the impe-
rial castle at Vienna. But the white
lady, being Hohenzollern spectre
the Hapsburg visitor was in all
probability an impostor. We are
inclined all the more to this belief
from the fact that the sentinel to
whom she appeared tried the effect
of his bayonet upon tho phenome.
non, and there was gentle rumol
whispered about Vienna at the time
that somebody had boon wounded
some lovely lady whose white dress
shone in the moonlit corridors. The
Berlin "apparition" will probably be
found to have a different explanation
namely, that the sentinel had
already been greatly excited in his
mind by the ghost stories he had
heard and that his imagination
was just in the condition necessary
to transform any futtering white
into the phantom form of the White
Lady Of the Hohenzollerns. ,.


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