balefires

Overwhelmed with guilt, Lou balefires the castle, with himself in it, and causes the Dragonmount to erupt out of the ground.

I Can Haz Better Stories Pls? wendigomountain 2010

And wolfbone balefires blaze the trailmost if only that Mary Nothing may burst her bibby buckshee.

Finnegans Wake 2006

Now, when they gathered in the servants 'halls around the balefires, and served out well-earned kraters of black wine at the end of a long day, _now _they would have something more edifying over which to exclaim than the number of childhood diseases he had narrowly survived or his current paternity suit.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

In the same dreary fashion, scholars have explained away the derivation of Cornwall's name from the Trojan hero Corineus, who defeated the giant Gogmagog in a wrestling match; and have concluded that balefires probably have nothing to do with the storm god of the Canaanites.

Sermon given in Truro Cathedral at the launch of the New Testament in Cornish 2004

Then on the hill that hugest of balefires the warriors wakened.

Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere 2003

Then on the hill that hugest of balefires the warriors wakened.

Beowulf 2003

Then on the hill that hugest of balefires the warriors wakened.

Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere 2003

In darkness, yours is the light of balefires, of funeral pyres.

Dalamar the Dark Berberick, Nancy Varian 2000

The place they were buried would be a good lookout, and someone has signaled with balefires from up there before, though I don't know how recently.

The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990

And the name of Balder’s balefires (Balder’s Ba˘ lar), by which these midsummer fires were formerly known in Sweden, puts their connexion with Balder beyond the reach of doubt, and makes it probable that in former times either a living representative or an effigy of Balder was annually burned in them.

Chapter 65. Balder and the Mistletoe 1922