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A wraith—the disembodied ghost of a living person. (See Fetiche.)
“Fetches … most commonly appear to distant friends and relations at the very instant preceding the death of those they represent”—Brand: Popular Antiquities (Death Omens)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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