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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 2133444" data-attributes="member: 20323">I really liked the story of the Stagman that you crafted. Do you already have a backstory about the White Lady who haunts the stand of birch where the Red Bull is buried? I was thinking something like....The Legend of the White LadyAt the southern end of town is a bridge over the creek. Children often are seen lying down on the bridge trying to reach something underneath -- a white scarf. This scarf belonged to the White Lady who died fifty years ago. Maybell suffered from bouts of melanchoy since her mother's death, and the only solace she had was tending the sacred grove of birch trees a circle of druids had entrusted to her family. Then, Maybell met a young man and fell in love. The night before the wedding, Maybell learned that her fiance's uncle was blackmailing him to marry her. It was for the sacred grove. Legally, the property would become his, and then the wicked uncle would coerce his nephew to cut the trees down and sell them as religious icons and other "holy pieces of carpentry." What happened that fateful night, no one seems to know, but young Maybell died dressed in her wedding dress. Some folks say she tried to hang herself but she fell into the river, her scarf left behind. Others say she ran from her fiance in horror on learning the truth, and as she ran through a windstorm, her scarf was caught underneath the bridge. Everyone knows her as the ghostly "White Lady" who appears on foggy nights by the strand of birch trees to protect them from greedy businessmen. The White Lady is deeply connected to the trees, combining the features of a ghost and dryad. As the trees provide her solace thinking of her mother (her truest wish is to meet her mother, but alas she cannot move on to heaven until she feels the grove is adequately protected). She has sworn to protect any dead buried in the grove (the Red Bull), and not to harm anyone who looks upon the birch trees and remembers a loved one. Other protections from the White Lady include dressing as a bride, but wielding symbols of faith is uneffective as she was a faithful woman in life. Anyone returning her scarf to her will be mistaken as either her fiance (man) or her mother (woman).</blockquote>

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