Charles de Coster, The Allies' Fairy Book — The Last Adventure of Thyl Ulenspiegel (1916)
“ And the will-o’-the-wisps said: “We are fire, the avengers of the ancient tears and pains of the poor; we take vengeance on the lords who hunted human game upon their lands; we are the avengers of useless battles, of the blood shed in prisons, of men burnt alive, of women and maidens buried alive, the avengers of a past of blood and chains. We are fire, we are the souls of the dead.” ”
Charles de Coster, The Allies' Fairy Book — The Last Adventure of Thyl Ulenspiegel (1916)
“ Look how the will-o’-the-wisps are dancing over Philipsland, where twice the bloodthirsty king put so many poor creatures to death to satisfy his cruel ambition; it is at night that the souls of poor men who fell in battle quit the cold Limbo of Purgatory, and come to warm themselves in the mild air of earth ”
Charles de Coster, The Allies' Fairy Book — The Last Adventure of Thyl Ulenspiegel (1916)
“ Lust, companion and sister of Murder, the mother of Nero, Messalina, and Philip, King of Spain, thou buyest virtue and rewardest corruption, we are the souls of the dead; Sloth and Gluttony, ye defile the world and must be swept from it; we are the souls of the dead. ”
