#corpse candles

[thecorpselight]

Dreug, (pronounced drayk), which means meteor, falling star, or fireball, is also used in connection with ghostly lights in the night sky which portend death. A woman from South Uist told me that only recently she saw these death-lights like the tail of a comet come to rest over the house on the night her brother died. In Tiree they are also called teine-sithe - fairy-fire - and, were witnessed by Father Allan McDonald in Eriskay. Sometimes these lights were said to be caused by other spirits awaiting the soul of a dying person. They had a greenish appearance and could be seen moving about the room where a body awaited burial. The Gaels also believed that the soul after death had the appearance of a flame. On the night three men were drowned near Kyle, the lights were seen by the Rev. D. MacEchern who officiated at the funeral in 1919. Mr. MacEchern was also told by a certain Mr. Young that his mother, who lived in Latheron, had been sitting by the bed where her children slept when she saw a light brighter than a candle rise from one of her bairns. Within a couple of days, the child was dead. One woman in the Black Isle told me that the whole bedroom lit up at the moment her mother died. She and the district nurse were dazzled by its brightness. Both found the experience comforting and unforgettable. Ravens and Black Rain. Elizabeth Sutherland.

#folklore #superstition #second sight #folk magic #corpse candles

[thelegendofeowyn]

There's this comic I LOVE called Crow Time.

The author, secondlina, often posts comics on Tumblr, but I couldn't find the specific comic I want to talk about, so here is the link:

In this comic, secondlina refers to will-o'-the-wisps as omens of death. I hadn't come across this characterization of wisps, so I did some digging, and found a couple things:

1. "Corpse-candles"

We hear the following from William Wells Newell:

"First may be mentioned the so-called " corpse-candles," supposed to precede and prognosticate a death. If luminous appearances of the sort issue from the room of a sick person, and are seen to enter the churchyard, it is taken for granted that the illness will be fatal, and that the sufferer will shortly be borne to his rest along the path followed by the apparition. The movement of the flame answers to that which may be expected from the living man; if the pace be brisk, as that of a youth skipping or running, the death of a child is indicated; if slow and even, of an elderly person. In this case the vision is, so to speak, a present reflection of the future event; inasmuch as it formerly was usual to inter by night, and in consequence torches or candles were borne by the mourners, such lamps belong to the funeral procession, which appears in an anticipatory reflex."

(Basically, that wisps appear as actual harbingers of death and light the way to the churchyard where a sick person will soon be buried after they die.)

2. Spirits of the Dead

I have found that wisps have also been called the spirits of the dead, with variations being

someone who tricked the devil and therefore could enter neither heaven nor hell when they died*

someone who moved a landmark

unbaptized infants

dishonest land surveyors

*There's a huge number of stories mentioning this phenomenon, so many that it is a folkloric motif (ATU 330).

So, the connections between wisps and death is strong enough that some people would say wisps have a stronger correlation to ghosts than to fairies. That's something I have encountered in a few of the abovementioned sources, but I feel like there's a lot more research to be done in that regard. I'm more than willing to take on that monstrous task!

#will o the wisp #ignis fatuus #jack o lantern #folklore #fairies #ghosts #magical creatures of loreve #william wells newell #katharine briggs #will smith #no not that one #the other one #irish folklore #scottish folklore #english folklore #welsh folklore #and much more #secondlina #crow time #motif index #folklore motif #spirits #corpse candles #omens of death #feu follet

[maypoleman1]

10th March

The Morfa Mining Disaster Premonitions

Source: Alamy Stock Photos

On this day in 1890, the mine at Morfa Colliery near Port Talbot in West Glamorgan, collapsed following a subterranean explosion: 87 miners were killed. The death toll would have been greater if half the shift had not heeded the extraordinary set of supernatural visions that foretold the imminent disaster in the days beforehand.

Apparently the Red Dogs of Morfa, a pack of howling hell hounds, ran amock the previous night; a parade of phantom lights known as corpse candles paraded through the tunnels; a bloom of sweet sickly smelling corpse flowers filled the mine with its warning scent; a plague of fleeing rats was spotted running from the pit; ghostly cries were heard on the wind and phantom miners were seen trooping through the mine. For many of the living miners, these portents were enough and they stayed at home on the 10th. For those rational souls that dared the ghostly warnings, they perished in the foretold collapse.

#morfa colliery #mining disasters #red dogs of morfa #premonitions #corpse candles #death flowers

[therealsigmamale1]

Movie title cards 🫶

#the thing #corpse bride #the shining #sixteen candles #10 things i hate about you #taxi driver #la la land #emma movie #little woman 2019 #little women #dead poets society #title card #movies #horror #horror movies #filmedit #film #movie poster

[lord-of-dorks]

- "The High King of the Infinite Realms, Son of the Stars" -

"White hair, dark glimmering chainmail over soft leather armour and a chest plate with a d-shaped crest on it. Finely made gloves and shoulder guards. White steel toed combat boots. A blue flaming crown, a ring of the same colour. A cape that holds the night sky and a staff made from the moon."

I'm alive?

Felt inspired to design some armor via "Knight of the Boyking" by @little-dreams-of-life . And after a long debate decided I'd share my interpretation of the resident ghost boy,,,

May decide to tweak some things next time, we'll see. Happy with how this turned out though!

As always click for better quality<3

#traditional art #syfi's art #iridescent ink #i fell in the dp x dc crossover hole #whoops #vibing in here i guess #RED DUCK CANDLE CHARM #danny phantom #ghost king #how did i get here?? #its not often i shade with corpse tones #dp x dc crossover

[lucjan]

sleep sleep sleep

#hand of glory #thieves' lights #raven stones #gallow #decay #death #corpse #dismemberment #occult #power #object #gif #crayon #animation #candle #video #time-lapse #sleep #lucjan_

[sad-drake-lyrics]

thought my basement was giving Heavenly Host vibes. 🕯

#corpse party #heavenly host #pixel horror #survival horror #horror games #mine #my photography #ifyoucghosts #i love how i just had this candle ready to go on the spot #took me no time at all to add it to the scene lol #irl ayumi #my girl #ayumi shinozaki #shinozaki ayumi #horror #videogame #save point #candle #candles #spooky #creepy

[madcat-world]

Candles of Corpses - D8P

#Candles of Corpses #D8P #Lord of the Rings #death #soldiers #war #the Dead Marshes #War of the Ring #game art #Dark fantasy #digital art

[madscientistmao]

self-indulgent sachiko shinozaki stimboard with themes of blood, scissors, and ghostcore!

please don't tag as kin/me/id!

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#[🧪] ⋮ mine .ᐟ #[🧪] ⋮ self-indulgent .ᐟ #stim #stimboard #stimblr #corpse party #sachiko shinozaki #blood tw #blood stim #scissors stim #ghost stim #candle stim #fog stim #proship #proship safe #proship please interact #proshippers please interact #profic #anti anti #anti harassment #anti censorship

[vargamormusings]

Processing bones in either water or earth can result in corpse wax. I do my best not to be wasteful when I am fortunate enough to find bones, and as a result, I am trying to utilize the adipocere. I was prepared for it to smell rotten , or at least gamey, but as it turns out, the smell of the beeswax far outweighs any smell that the corpse wax has!

#pagan #paganism #witchcraft #goblincore #gremlincore #bonehound #bonehounding #corpsewax #adipocere #vulture culture #corpse wax candle

[candle-buds]

I don’t think I’ve drawn anything corpse party in at least a year

Therefore, a 1-minute mayu for the soul

#corpse party #mayu suzumoto #squidbeliever my drawings #candle-buds my drawings

[thecorpselight]

Corpse-candle is a luminous exhalation, which, hovering over the graves is supposed to portend death, and to indicate by its course the direction the corpse-bearers will take.

If a corpse-candle burns red, it is for a man.

If a corpse-candle burns blue, it is for a child.

If a corpse-candle burns white, it is for a woman.

It is sometimes held in the hand of a ghost, who appears to warn a member of the family of a death, and then again if it is a blue flame, which issues from the lips of a sick person, indicating that he or she will surely die. If two are seen, a mother and child will die.

#folklore #superstition #folk magic #corpse candles

[citrus-cactus]

Not to sound like a cranky old lady, but I am shocked and appalled every time I venture into the capitalist hellscape known as Michaels Arts and Crafts.

#first off: tons of empty shelves. #second: so much cheap crap and like… pre-made candles and decorations?? get those OUT of there #third: meager yarn section #third-and-a-half: kids’ crafts and kids’ craft instruction is just. NOT the same as it was (it seems worse?) #fourth (and now we might be getting hyper-specific to my local stores): dried paint?? all over the floor?? #like everything about my local stores just scream SAD #the latest horror is automated checkout kiosks #the WHOLE STORE was staffed by like… one young woman #I felt SO BAD asking her a question #idk everything is awful and a place that used to bring me so much joy as a kid is just… a shambling corpse of a business #the cactus screams into the void

[strixhaven]

everything possible ever happened in my dream last night

#vampires. molotov cocktails. discussions about how race and ethnicity are socially constructed. orville peck candle and water bottle. #the water bottle has a cowboy hat top. my brother deadnamed me to a girl on a train. the difficulty in trying to estimate sex and ethnicity #based off skeletons and how shovel-shaped incisors are more common amongst native folks from america and canada and parts of northwest #central and east asia. museum robbery but if the bag touches the ground you explode. so the vampires needed to make a bridge of corpses #strange creature wearing jingle bells because this was also all taking place in european town during christmas #there was so much more i’m not kidding when i say everything happened ever in the span of maybe 20 minutes #my assistant manager was there we had to mop too

[zincbot]

hey so i decided to play echoes of the eye. what the fuck.

#i'm not done yet #outer wilds #echoes of the eye spoilers #(in the tags) #okay so i dunno how fucking long they were gonna let me prance around willy nilly #but i literally cleared the whole first area? the shrouded woods. like i found the secret projector room or whatever #and its only now that i'm trying to figure out the starlit cove that i am realizing THERE'S DUDES IN HERE #AND THEY FUCKING GRAB YOU #trying to sneak through the pitch dark while these mfers patrol is SO HARD #like i was having a grand old time in this empty ass river town and this dark but interesting dream world #lighting up all the candles n shit #no. i should have known from all the corpses but they have just been chillin in the simulation all this time ig #why do they kick me out though guys cmon i have a lantern! let me hang with u #like the reduced frights option was there so i assumed there wld be frights but i literally didn't see a single thing for so long

[shinozaki-ayumi]

IRL (FAKE) GORE WARNING

New video posted by Mages is very likely a Corpse Party teaser.

#CORPSE PARTY IS BACK BABY LETS GOOOOOOO #corpse party #corpse party darkness distortion #gore / #so excited i could throw up this franchise has me in a permanent chokehold #i saw candles and almost shouted out loud #brainrot of the highest degree