spunkies

"spunkies" that everybody in Scotland knew came out to dance in old kirkyards.

Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902

My apprentices are turned into mere goblins — they appear and disappear like spunkies, and have no more regularity in them than a watch without a scapement.

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

At that moment the spunkies began to squeak and grow dim.

Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

He wondered whether anyone else had experienced a similar touch of grue, and cursed Ullanoth for not telling him the truth about the spunkies — whatever it might be.

Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

And not timidly, either, like the spunkies down south in Cathra!

Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

Trembling with anger, as well as with the worsening pain and weakness caused by use of the Great Stone, she aimed Subtle Loophole at the mysteriously important boys and found them riding toward the Coast Highway, guided through thick fog by spunkies.

Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

The commotion made by the spunkies was cut off as by a slamming door.

Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

The only one who heard was Snudge — far ahead of the others, being guided by spunkies to Castle Redfern in the first light of dawn.

Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

The warm weather she had depended upon to support the magical fog of the spunkies was probably over as well.

Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

With unaccustomed forbearance Mero remained silent, riding in the rear while the spunkies created the now familiar fog-free tunnel and guided the four armigers down the sharp switchbacks toward the great valley of the River Malle.

Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003