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Endnote 38 — The Bröcken-specter, and a wraith seed

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Defines the mountain light-and-monster-shadow phenomenon, citing the Walpurgisnacht of Goethe's Faust, and notes in passing that "Gespenst means specter or wraith" (p. 994) — a quiet early seed of the novel's wraith motif.

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