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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Wra’ith.
 
The spectral appearance of a person shortly about to die. It appears to persons at a distance, and forewarns them of the event.” (Highland superstition.) (See FAIRY.)   1
 


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