Mélusine is said to have been the wife of the founder of Luxembourg,
Count Siegfried. When they married, she requested Siegfried to leave her alone
for one full day and night every month, and that he should not ask or try to
find out what she was doing. Siegfried accepted this wish, and all went well
for years. On the first Wednesday of the month, Mélusine would retire into her
chambers in the "casemates", a network of caverns underneath the
city, not to be seen again until early light on Thursday.
But one day, Siegfried's curiosity got the better of him. Wondering what his wife might be doing alone all the time, he peeped through the keyhole, and was shocked to see that Mélusine was lying in the bathtub, with a fishtail hanging over the rim. Realizing that her husband had come to know the truth about her, she jumped out of the window into the river Alzette below, never to be seen again. Every now and then, people claim to have seen a beautiful girl's head pop out of the river, and a fishtail rippling the calm waters of the river Alzette.
But one day, Siegfried's curiosity got the better of him. Wondering what his wife might be doing alone all the time, he peeped through the keyhole, and was shocked to see that Mélusine was lying in the bathtub, with a fishtail hanging over the rim. Realizing that her husband had come to know the truth about her, she jumped out of the window into the river Alzette below, never to be seen again. Every now and then, people claim to have seen a beautiful girl's head pop out of the river, and a fishtail rippling the calm waters of the river Alzette.
Source: http://luxembourgish.blogspot.com/2006/11/mysterious-maiden-mlusine.html
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