European ghosts

thumb|upright=1.35|The Will o' the Wisp and the Snake by Hermann Hendrich (1854–1931)

thumb|upright=0.80|Dante Gabriel Rossetti, How They Met Themselves, watercolour, 1864

type of female ghost

folklore character

In Scandinavian folklore, the mylingar were the phantasmal incarnations of the souls of children that had been forced to roam the earth until they could persuade someone (or otherwise cause enough of a ruckus to make their wishes known) to bury them properly.

Swedish noblewoman

thumb|Gjenganger tries to claim a new victim for the sea, Thorvald Niss (1932)