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Alastor (Alas`tor) , an avenging spirit, given to torment families whose history has been stained by some crime.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Alastor in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
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Townley, Charles