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- noun Plural form of
wraith .
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Examples
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The wraiths were a final measure when a coven was in grave danger.
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The wraiths were a final measure when a coven was in grave danger.
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He brought a cold sweat in his wake, like the wraiths which issued from the mundus on the dies religiosi.
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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
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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?"
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"wraiths" of our ancestors to "revisit the glimpses of the moon" even for such a loyal and patriotic object as the furtherance of Scottish
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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
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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.
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- 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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