In the castle in Tuczno, beautifully situated by the lake and once belonging to the distinguished Wedel-Tuczyński family, two apparitions appear: a squire with a falcon on his shoulder and a young woman in white.
The castle's story links these apparitions to events that unfolded in the early fourteenth century. At that time, one of the Tuczyńskis married a beautiful young lady from a distinguished Greater Poland family. Perhaps she was forced into the marriage, as discord quickly erupted between the couple. When the castle's lord, summoned by the king, set off with his retinue for Kraków, the lady began a secret affair with a young falconer. The lovers met in the eastern tower, where the lady ordered her loom and spinning wheel to be set up to conceal her presence.
After several months, her husband returned, and a grand waterfowl hunt was organized with the entire court participating. The lady, shooting a flock of teal with a crossbow, hit the falconer. The young man died that evening. The distraught castellan's wife locked herself in her tower chamber.
Some time later, she was found dead. The servants whispered that she had committed suicide by drinking poison. After she was buried in the family crypt, inexplicable phenomena began to occur: the rattle of a spinning wheel came from behind the closed door of the tower room. Guards patrolling the walls at night saw flickering lights in the window of this chamber, and a deceased lady, wrapped in a white mantle—a shroud—strolled through the aisles of the garth at dusk. The falconers noticed that in the evenings, the falcon fluttered its wings restlessly and uttered the call with which it had once greeted the young man who had cared for it. Years later, Castellan Tuczyński married for the second time, and this sad event would have faded from memory if not for the recurring apparitions.
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