Wraʹith
.The spectral appearance of a person shortly about to die. It appears to persons at a distance, and forewarns them of the event.” (Highland superstition.) (See Fairy.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.