Editor’s Note: the Corpse Candle is a white light that is associated with death.Here the corpse candle is associated with a ghost, though a ghost who is not yet dead…

One William John, of the Parish of Lanboydi, a smith, on going home one night, being somewhat  drunk and bold, (it seems too bold) saw one of the  Corpse Candles; he went out of his way to meet  with it, and when he came near it, he saw it was a  burying, and the corpse upon the bier, the perfect  resemblance of a woman in the neighbourhood  whom he knew, holding the Candle between her  fore fingers, who dreadfully grinned at him; and  presently he was struck down from his horse, where  he remained a while, and was ill a long time after  before he recovered. This was before the realburying of the woman. His fault, and therefore  his danger, was his coming presumptuously against  the Candle. — This is another sensible proof of the  Apparition and being of Spirits.