balefire

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From Middle English bale-fyre, from Old English bǣlfȳr (“balefire, funeral or sacrificial fire”); equivalent to bale (“funeral pyre”) +‎ fire.

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balefire (plural balefires)

  1. A bonfire, any large outdoor fire (for example those used in a funeral pyre, or in witches' rituals).
    • 2002, Marilyn F. Daniel, Kitchen Witchery‎[1], Weiser, →ISBN, page 236:
      Rites done on a lakeshore or seashore can be illuminated with balefires of dried driftwood collected prior to the rite.

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