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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—W

Wraith

“The spectral appearance of a person shortly about to die. It appears to persons at a distance, and forewarns them of the event.” (High-land superstition.) (See Fairy.)

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