wraiths

The wraiths were a final measure when a coven was in grave danger.

Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve Kresley Cole 2010

The wraiths were a final measure when a coven was in grave danger.

A Hunger Like No Other Kresley Cole 2006

He brought a cold sweat in his wake, like the wraiths which issued from the mundus on the dies religiosi.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

In the philosophy of "wraiths" and "fetches," the appearance of a double, like that which troubled Mistress Affery in her waking dreams of Mr. Flintwinch, has been from time out of mind a signal of alarm.

Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology 1872

But then the "auld gudewife" believed in many other things which her posterity had grown wise enough to reject, -- such as wraiths, witches, spunkies, and the like; and if rallied on the subject she would reply, indignantly, "And did na I my ain sel ', see the fairies dancing in the briken-shaw, one Halloween?"

Tom, The Bootblack or, The Road to Success Horatio Alger 1865

"wraiths" of our ancestors to "revisit the glimpses of the moon" even for such a loyal and patriotic object as the furtherance of Scottish

Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 James Young Simpson 1840

Another one in Return Of The King – one of the wraiths demands to battle Gandalf … and then they never fight.

What TV or movie death scenes have left you disappointed? | EW.com 2009

A last hollow survival of the days of carnival [in which] a few childish wraiths still played to keep up the pretense that they were alive, betraying by their feverish voices and hectic cheeks the thinness of the masquerade.

Fashion in Dark Times 2009

- I kind of miss the ring-wraiths, now that they're gone.

but WHERE will you get the best EDUCATION? intertribal 2009

Melke and her brother, Hantje, are wraiths, they can turn invisible at will.

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