self-immolant

Updated: August 6, 2026

We had one candle between us there. Moreover, the purple lamp was burning, its quaint cup of wire-gauze averted doom from many self-immolant flies. We knelt beneath it, and he said the Prayers of the Shrine, then our own prayers followed then he began to tell: 'I was coming back from England twenty months ago and I chose to come by the East Coast. It is a beautiful way to come.

Arthur Shearly Cripps - Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales