airily-malicious

Updated: July 7, 2025

Of course, if you have any especial object in believing in ghosts if it affords you any great and lasting pleasure to associate, in imagination, with spectres, wraiths, and airily-malicious shadows, I will not cross your fancy. To a person of solid nerves a banshee may be an entertaining companion, and an apparition in a well-worn winding-sheet may be a pretty toy.

F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford - The Witch of Prague