The Lady of Tears
On their way toward the Judge’s justice, the Lady of Tears accompanies the dead. She also consoles the ones still living. The Lady of Tears is a woman dressed in the white of mourning, traces of tears still on her cheeks, but with a mysterious smile.
Her element is fire, the cleansing fire that destroys the body to set the spirit free.
A dark aspect of the Lady is the Butcher or the Executioner, who cuts or hacks off body parts until nothing is left, but still leaves the ghost trapped.
A less grim incarnation is the Lady of Tar, who covers the pyre and the corpse in pitch for a quick and intense fire.
The Lady of Tears is praised with offerings of burning myrrh, white candles, or small fires – not inside the chapel, though.
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