wraiths

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

Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve

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

A Hunger Like No Other

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

Fortune's Favorites

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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