Brewer's: Fetch

A wraith—the disembodied ghost of a living person. (See Fetiche.)

“Fetches ... most commonly appear to distant friends and relations at the very instant preceding the death of those they represent ” —Brand: Popular Antiquities (Death Omens).

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