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A Dictionary of Weather (3 ed.)
... spectre The apparently greatly magnified shadow of an observer cast on to the surrounding mist. The effect is an illusion. Depth perception is altered by the mist, causing the shadow to appear more distant and to be interpreted as larger than normally expected. Named after the Brocken, a peak in the Harz Mountains in Germany, with which the effect is...
Spectre of the Brocken Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
... of the Brocken An optical illusion, first observed on the Brocken (the highest peak of the Harz range in central Germany), in which shadows of the spectators, greatly magnified, are projected on the mists around the summit of the mountain opposite. In one of Thomas De Quincey ’s ( 1785–1859 ) opium dreams, there is a powerful description of the Brocken spectre...
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Literary Theory Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...component of perception. And in ‘Constancy to an Ideal Object’ ( 1825–6 ) Coleridge uses the Spectre to question the status of the ideal world glimpsed in art. The question that this third text directs to the Spectre and the Ideal Object—‘And art thou nothing?’—seems apt in each of these contexts. At least at first glance, the obvious answer to this question is that the Brocken Spectre is indeed nothing; it is nothing more than an optical illusion. Moreover, the Spectre suggests a range of associations which, one assumes, an idealist poetics would want to...
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Walpurgis Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
...was supposed to hold high revelry under its chief, the Devil, on high places, such as the Brocken, the highest point of the Harz Mountains. Walpurga was an English nun ( c. 710– c. 779 ) who went as a missionary to Germany and then became abbess of Heidenheim. The date of the transfer of her remains to Eichstätt – 1 May – led to her coincidental association with the rites of an earlier pagan festival. Her feast-day is 25 February. See also spectre of the brocken . Walpurgis oil A bituminous kind of oil exuding from the rock at Eichstätt in which the...
optical phenomena Quick reference
A Dictionary of Weather (3 ed.)
...caused by diffraction , reflection , refraction , or scattering by dry particles, water droplets, or ice crystals in the atmosphere or on the ground, or by the atmosphere itself. The phenomena include: anthelic arcs , anthelion , arcs of contact , blue sky , Brocken spectre , circumhorizontal arc , circumzenithal arc , corona (1), dewbow , fogbow , glory , green flash , halo , heiligenschein , paraselene , parhelic circle , parhelion , rainbow , shadow of the Earth , subsun , and sunrise/sunset colours...
Impossible Crime Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing
...Terror and Mystery , 1925 ) and was followed by Melville Davisson Post 's The Bradmoor Murder ( 1929 ; The Garden in Asia ). A truck vanished in H. S. Keeler 's The Vanishing Gold Truck ( 1941 ), an airliner in Karen Campbell 's Suddenly, in the Air ( 1969 ; The Brocken Spectre ), and a houseboat in Richard Forrest 's Death on the Mississippi ( 1989 ). One of the simplest yet most convincing disappearances was Jacques Futrelle 's “Phantom Motor Car” ( Cassell's Family Magazine , Mar. 1908 ). Several writers focused on clues , such as...
Missing Persons Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing
...in 1753 and that of heiress Dorothy Arnold on a wintry day in New York in 1910 . Josephine Tey 's The Franchise Affair ( 1948 ) is a modern retelling of the Canning case. Karen Campbell , a former stewardess, based her novel Suddenly in the Air ( 1969 ; The Brocken Spectre ) on the real losses of two Tudor IV airliners, in 1948 and 1949 . In the novel, a plane loaded with gold is flying the South Atlantic route over which another gold-carrying plane had disappeared only a year earlier. See also Kidnapping . Allen Churchill , They Never...
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The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland (3 ed.)
...with horrors, after I had written it I durst not venture to put my name to it’, but more probably because he guessed it would offend the Calvinists. The setting is largely in Calvinist Edinburgh of the late 17th and early 18th cc. and there is a vivid description of the Brocken spectre, seen from the summit of Arthur's Seat. Francis Jeffrey , Lord Jeffrey ( 1773–1850 ), advocate, judge, and a leading literary figure of his time, was born at 7 Charles St. and educated at the High School and University. He began married life ( 1801 ) at 18 Buccleuch Pl....
Brocken Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
... the highest of the Harz Mountains of north central Germany. It is noted for the phenomenon of the Brocken spectre and for witches' revels which reputedly took place there on Walpurgis night. The Brocken spectre is a magnified shadow of an observer, typically surrounded by rainbow-like bands, thrown on to a bank of cloud in high mountain areas when the sun is low. The phenomenon was first reported on the Brocken...
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4 ed.)
...Boy’) to the Metal Massacre V compilation, released on Metal Blade Records in 1984. The label immediately signed the band to a long-term recording agreement and released the debut album, entitled Night On Bröcken , in the same year. The album was very reminiscent of early Iron Maiden , both in the compositions and Arch’s vocal style. The Spectre Within followed in 1985, but shortly after its release guitarist Arduini left the band to be replaced by Frank Aresti. Awaken The Guardian showed the band’s music to be more progressive and complex than first...
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