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VOERGAARD.
Chap. XXXVII.
conjures up his deceased master. Claus delivers the
message of the lady Ingeborg. “ Tell her,” replies his
jnaster, “ that I have gone where a chair is preparing
for her, and she will be taken when it is finished, unless
she gives back the meadows of Agersted. But to prove
that you have spoken to me, I give you my bridal ring
to show to her.” Claus reaches forth his hat to receive
the ring, and waits on the third Sunday at the
churchgate for his mistress. He gives the message and the ring.
“ Well,” said the lady, “ you have saved your life; but I
will never give back the meadows of Agersted.” Shortly
afterwards there is a great funeral feast at Voer church,
for the lady Ingeborg is to be buried; but do not
imagine she rested quiet in her grave—she returned
every night and made such unearthly noises in the
courtyard, that the parson of Alsted was forced to conjure her
down in a bog hard by, called the Pulse. But she still
appears on Christmas-eve, when she drives over the
drawbridge into the inner courtyard in a coach drawn
by six horses, with fire glaring from their nostrils and
mouths, and she is often seen in the Pulse combiner her
long hair with a golden comb. On every New Year’s night
she is permitted to advance the length of a cock’s step
towards the manor-house, and when she has reached it
Voergaard will inevitably sink. Neither grass nor moss
ever grows at the place where she has been conjured
down into the mose, and, by help of the scorched spots
in the adjacent field, it may always be ascertained how
many lengths of a cock’s step she has proceeded towards
Voergaard.
The chateau consists of one corps de batiment,
flanked by two octagonal towers; the wings, if there
were any, have been destroyed. When standing in the
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