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a ghost with a deadline, appearing to announce someone's death like the rudest possible RSVP.
means A ghostly apparition of a person, especially one seen as an omen just before or after their death.
from A word that drifts in from Scots, surfacing in 16th-century writing, with no agreed parentage — its origins are genuinely murky. Some have tried to tie it to the Old Norse 'vörðr' (a guardian or watcher) or to words for 'wreath' and 'writhe,' but these are speculative cousins at best. Fittingly for a thing that haunts the edge of death, the word itself half-vanishes when you reach for its source.
- origin
- Scottish word first recorded in the 1500s
- the rules
- seeing your own wraith means death is near
- not picky
- can appear before death or just after
- car namesake
- Rolls-Royce slapped it on a luxury coupe
mclaren f1 wraith — rolls-royce luxury car model introduced in 2013
wraith of east neuk — scottish ghost story and novel by john buchan set in fife
wraith class starship — stargate atlantis alien spacecraft driven by the wraith species