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In England, it became known as the jack-o'-lantern or corpse-candle or will-o'-the-wisp, from "William with the wisp."
She is a comet that has a strange fancy only to come forth like a corpse-candle, and dance over men's graves.— Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida
"Oh, a corpse-candle, or some nonsense of that sort, he had his mind running on, my lord.— The Channings
"My lord," spoke poor Jenkins, deprecatingly, "I never had such a thought within me as that it was a 'corpse-candle.'— The Channings
At last the poor Giacomo came, half undressed and holding a lantern in his hand -- he seemed terrified, and trembled so much that the lantern jogged up and down like a corpse-candle on a tomb.— Vendetta: a story of one forgotten

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