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Legends 47: Darkness Rising

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Aaron Mahnke

True Crime, Ghost, Folklore, Legends, Supernatural, Paranormal, Lore, Monsters, Myth, History, Spooky

4.6 β€’ 46.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The cool waters of the ponds and lakes that dot our landscape are often seen as safe retreats for recreation and rest. But if these legends have anything to teach us, it’s that there is always a bit of darkness beneath the surface.

Narrated and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with writing by Alex Robinson and research by Jamie Vargas.

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0:00.8

Welcome to lore legends, a subset of lore episodes that explore the strange tales we whisper in the dark,

0:07.5

even if they can't always be proven by the history books.

0:12.0

So if you're ready, let's begin.

0:28.6

The plague was raging across Germany, but one village had managed to avoid it. Following the instructions of an old wife's tale, a small village near the city of Katbuss had taken a copper kettle from a house where the plague had killed every inhabitant.

0:38.9

Then they used the kettle handle to draw a circle in the dirt around the entire town.

0:44.2

As long as the circle remained intact, the pestilence would stay away.

0:49.4

Every day, though, one man drove his cart outside the town limits to oversee operations at his mill.

0:56.4

It was during his commute that the miller met a woman by the side of the road.

1:01.0

Even though her clean, white dress hinted at wealth and privilege, she was sobbing.

1:06.8

Feeling pity on her, he allowed her to climb into his cart, and then together they journeyed back to town.

1:12.4

But as the man's cart crossed back over the line, the woman somehow fell out.

1:17.3

He helped her back in, but she fell off again and again, landing in the dirt each time.

1:23.1

Eventually, he was forced to drag her across the line before setting her back into the cart

1:28.3

once they had crossed the boundary.

1:30.4

A short while later, though, she disappeared.

1:34.4

Later that night, when the miller sat down to dinner with his family, the woman in White barged

1:39.2

in.

1:40.2

She hit one of the man's sons over the head, and he immediately fell ill. The woman in whites, of course, had been the plague, and the Miller had invited her in.

1:50.0

When humans are forced to confront things that we don't understand, we make up stories to explain what we've seen.

1:57.0

It helps us process the incomprehensible, whether mundane or devastating.

2:02.6

This German folk tale about the plague wasn't the only one that Europeans created to explain how illness entered their homes.

2:10.6

Other versions used real-life historical figures as the scapegoats. A few even transformed into hate speech,

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