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Northern Lights

The Aurora Boreä'lis, ascribed by the northern savages to the merriment of the ghosts. (See Aurora.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

Northern Wagoner

Northern Gate of the Sun

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