I shall tell you, though, how people first began to talk about a ghost in Wildenstein.

The origin of these rumors goes back many, many years." "There is a picture in the castle," the mother began to relate, "which I often looked at as a child and which made a deep impression upon me.

It represents a pilgrim who wanders restlessly about far countries, despite his snow-white hair, which is blowing about his head, and despite his looking old and weather-beaten.

It is supposed to be the picture of the ancestor of the family of Wallerstaetten.

The family name is thought to have been different at that time.
"This ancestor is said to have been a man extremely susceptible to violent outbreaks.