An Arranged Marriage

Once in the city of Parisius was a wedding, a wedding that had it's dark side. Those that attended it will never forget that day.

A young man of the de Sade family was to be married to a young woman of the le Marchand family during the harvest time. Both were bound to marry due to it being arranged by the respective families and the dowry had been accepted. This included a parcel of land on the outskirts of the city. What most didn't realise was that the land had a curse placed on it from a few centuries before by a Green Hag, who had been executed by the local Roman garrison at the time.
According to the curse, it was to be enacted when the land was to be left alone and not to be disturbed, especially for housing the new beginning for a family. To do so would cause the spirit of the hag to rise and torment the family. Little did the de Sade & le Marchand familes know this.
When the families decide on the wedding, they had the land turned into a small noble dwelling with an attached farmland. They were to move into the property when they married to give them at start in life, and they could use the farmland for their own needs as well as selling the excess for profit. Some of the family members reasoned the newlyweds could expand taking in more farmland after a period of time.
It has to be mentioned that for generations the local farming families wouldn't use it, let alone go near it. All the while the land & building were being built up they warned about a possible curse there, and strange things had happened in the past. Minor things such as plants not growing correctly, strange sightings at night around it, and animals hating it & refusing to cross the land.
Ignoring the locals, the young family soon moved in. Nothing seemed wrong at first, maybe minor drafts, creaking wood, and small cold snaps. These seemed to get worse over the following days until the last week of Harvest. The strange effects seemed to get worse, far worse. Screams, the sound of fingernails scratching wood (also appearing here & there physically), and a shadow out of the side of the eye dressed in what appeared a wedding dress.
By the end of the week the husband & wife were conscious of some entity following them on the land, watching & waiting. Eventually on Harvest Sunday an incorporeal being in a flowing dress appeared with scratchy low-pitched whispers. All they could make out was that they were to be the crop for the curse and be burned as an offering to the spirits of the earth that originally ruled the Earth.
A couple of hours later that night some of the local farming community realised that the house was on fire and a cackling could be heard over the roar of the burning building. Nothing could be done to stop the fire nor save the young couple. When the morning came, the house and much of the farmland was burned to cinders.
The charred remains of the young couple lay in the smoking ruins, and an barely visible wisp of smoke in the shape of a wedding dress blew away in the wind, with a barely heard cackle, and a whisper of the curse still bound to the land.