The Bride

They say she comes in response to the cries of an unwilling bride the night before her wedding. For she was once such a maiden, wearing a dress she didn't want, forced into the arms of a man she did not choose. They say that rather than face her fate, she set off onto the moors with a single lantern for company, never to be seen alive again. And yet sometimes, she is still seen, out in the darkness - a lantern bobbing in the night, a white-clad figure fleeing through the wind and the rain. She is seen most often by men stumbling home drunk from their bachelor party, and if he is wise, he takes it as a sign to call the marriage off, lest the ghost steal his wife away from their wedding bed, leaving behind an empty dress.

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