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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—S

Spectre of the Brocken

The Brocken is the highest summit of the Hartz mountains in Hanover. This summit is at times enveloped in a thick mist, which reflects in a greatly magnified degree any form opposite at sunset. In one of De Quincey's opium-dreams there is a powerful description of the Brocken spectre.

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