Re: [DL] spirit lamps

[Shane.Mclean@t-online.de (Shane Mclean)]

Or the light shows the true form of the critters when it's shon on them?
Or maybe projects a shodow of the person's true self (dark twisted shoadows
for nasty folks, shadows embracing women for an adulterer, etc)?

Shane

From: "Fred Jandt" <fajandt@yahoo.com>
> Or the "power" of the lamps is a trapped luminescent
> spirit. And every so often the "light" given off by
> the lamp distorts things so that they look more
> "Deadlands-ish." ;)
>
> Fred J.
>
> --- Jeff Shoffner <shoffner@esper.com> wrote:
> > ooohhhh... think of the possiblities... An MS making
> > these "spirit lamps"
> > that use electricity for all the good little boys &
> > girls of Salt Lake City
> > (ie: the Mormon kids) but instead of driving the
> > "spirits" away, it draws
> > them in.....  heh-heh....
> >
> > Jeff S
> >
> >
> > >May possibly be another name for fairy lamps, which
> > were the period version
> > >of the nightlight.
> > >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: owner-deadlands@gamerz.net
> > [mailto:owner-deadlands@gamerz.net]On
> > >Behalf Of Jeff Shoffner
> > >Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 9:54 PM
> > >To: deadlands@gamerz.net
> > >Subject: [DL] a question for the history buffs
> > >
> > >
> > >I was reading a pseudo-history set fiction book
> > when I came across
> > something
> > >that I don't know what it is, but might be
> > something "useful" to DL.  What
> > >is a spirit lamp?  This is taken in context in a
> > turn of the century (1909)
> > >English hospital if that helps.  Just think of the
> > cool "things" that come
> > >to mind when "spirit lamp" and MS comes
> > together....
> > >
> > >Jeff S
> > >
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