1) On the Allmendrain, between the Fecht and the mill-water of Ingersheim, people often see, already at dusk, a white girl playing in the grass and along the bank of the stream. A child from the village, who knew nothing of this apparition, was sent one evening to drive home some ducks that had lingered by the brook, and suddenly saw the white girl hopping a few steps ahead of him. The child called out to her: “Come and help me look for the ducks!” But the white girl turned around and gave no answer.
Since the child could not find the ducks, he ran home and brought back his elder brother to help him search. Both saw the white girl sitting in the grass. As soon as they came too close, she sprang up, hopped over the little bridge by the Stellbrett, and disappeared among the vines. A few moments later, however, she came gliding out again, with a white veil over her head and her hands folded across her breast.
The boy now tried to go nearer and called to her: “Whom do you belong to, little maid? Go home, the night bell has already rung!” But since he got no answer, and the girl kept moving forward as if mocking him, he took up a stone and threw it at her. The stone flew in an arc over his head, and at once the girl vanished into the ground. Twice the children then heard a clear voice call from that very spot: “Gäll! Gäll!” In fact, the stone had struck one of the ducks that had been sleeping beside the ditch, and it now flapped its wings, quacked loudly, and hurried homeward.
According to the children, the white girl did not exactly hop, but rather seemed to float forward in short rises above the ground.
2) On another occasion, toward evening, a girl was crossing the great bridge over the Fecht, a place that was already considered eerie at other times as well. There the white girl came past her, struck her in the face, and sighed: “Ah, why did you not wish me good night?” Then she said something else to her, which the girl would not confide to anyone for the rest of her life, and asked her to come back again the following evening.
Her mother, a courageous woman, went with her. When they reached the place where the apparition had shown itself the day before, they fell to their knees and prayed three Our Fathers and three Hail Marys, but nothing appeared. From that time on, however, the girl could no longer look at anything white without falling into fear, and sometimes even into the most violent convulsions.
