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The White Lady

On the cliff that supports the ruins of the old Duino Castle, one can glimpse a white rock that resembles a female figure wrapped in a cloak.
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A noblewoman and her lord, a cruel castellan, lived in the castle. One night, the man threw her from the cliff and the ill-fated woman let out such an agonizing scream as she was falling that the heavens took pity and turned her into a rock.

Since then, at around midnight each night, the unfortunate lady detaches herself from the cliff and wanders through the castle searching for the room that held her daughter's cradle. At dawn she moves away from the castle and, grief-stricken, turns back into stone.