wraith

Even in those without mental illness, temporary changes in brain activity can lead to run-ins with wraiths.

Eulálio ends up being an idol, a wraith who, at 150, is not quite dead and not quite living.

The wraith-like coils that had left the mass above had straightened to sharp spear-heads of speed.

But I could smell the lilacs she had left, and the scent of them seemed like the wraith of her presence in the sunny room.

Like a little wraith miraculously tinted with bronze and blue she stopped and faced him piteously for a second.

Quite true, fair wraith; but you are not the only ghost at this dance to-night.

Moya faced them tensely, a slim wraith of a girl with dark eyes that blazed.