A group describes a woman in a mirror and then tries to turn the story into an encounter; Mary’s identity and the rules vary between groups.
A woman’s cries and green dress link the chateau to the murdered Charlotte de Valois; sources tell the building’s history and the ghost’s story differently.
One tradition destroys the town through a palace’s shadow, another through a rejected magician’s curse; monument opening hours have a separate legal history.
Weeping beside water connects many narratives: drowned children, a separated family and a ghost identified differently in each locality.
The forest master changes size and dress, moves animals between territories and makes travellers circle familiar ground.
A nocturnal spinner tangles work, rattles crockery and sometimes helps the housewife; a Vologda tale has a bear drive her away.
The bathhouse owner reserves a washing turn of his own and supposedly meets intruders with boiling water, stones and blows from a bath whisk.
Castle staff recount footsteps, touches and a little boy supposedly holding visitors’ hands without their noticing him.
A local legend brings the executed queen back to her family estate in a white dress, carrying her head in a carriage with a headless team.
A samurai welcomes a dead woman as living, while his servant sees a very different embrace.
