The Story of Giselle
ACT I
A quaint village, seemingly haunted by spirits, was inhabited by a few peasants.
One of the strange legends that travelled around the village was that of the Wilis. They were believed to be ghostly, sylph-like spirits of young maidens who had been deserted or deceived by their lovers and had died of grief and a broken heart even before their wedding bells had chimed- and, in particular, of girls who had had a great love of dancing in their former lives.
Lovely though they were to look at, the Wilis kept up a dangerous grudge against all the male mortals they came in contact with. If any young man happened to be out alone in the forest late at night and was unlucky enough to fall in with a group of Wilis dancing as sylphs in the moonlight, he was never seen al
