White Lady
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White Lady or Lady in White can have many meanings:
In folklore and mythology:
- White Lady (ghost), a common name around the world for a female ghost
- Dames Blanches (folklore) (White Ladies in French), a female spirit of Northern French folklore
In fiction:
- White Lady, character in C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia (see White Witch)
- La dame blanche (The White Lady), an opera
- White Lady of Rohan, character created by J. R. R. Tolkien (see Éowyn)
- White Lady of the Noldor, character created by J. R. R. Tolkien (see Aredhel)
- Lady in White, a 1988 film starring Lukas Haas.
Other:
- Ladies in White (Damas de Blanco) is a movement in Cuba
- La Dame Blanche (French: the white lady), a mountain in the Alps (see Mont Blanc)
- White Lady (movie), a 2006 movie in Philippines
- White Lady (spider), an African spider of the Sparassidae family
- White Lady (cocktail) (also known as the Delilah), a cocktail made with gin
- The White Lady, a rock painting in Namibia
- White lady is also a slang term for the drugs heroin and cocaine.
- See also: White women (mythology) and The Woman in White