The Phantom Washerwoman“It was usually towards midnight [the phantom washerwomen] were heard b

The Phantom Washerwoman“It was usually towards midnight [the phantom washerwomen] were heard beating their linen in front of different washing-places, always some way from the villages. According to the old folk of the past generation, when the phantom washerwoman would ask a certain passer-by to help them to wring sheets, he could not refuse, under pain of being stopped and wrung like a sheet himself. And it was necessary for those who aided in wringing the sheets to turn in the same direction as the washerwomen; for if by misfortune the assistant turned in an opposite direction, he had his arms wrung in an instant. It is believed that these phantom washerwomen are women condemned to wash their mortuary sheets during whole centuries; but that when they find some mortal to wring in the opposite direction, they are delivered.”-W. Y. Evans-Wentz, The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (1911) -- source link
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