corpusants
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- appearance
- pallid fire, tapering white flames
- description
- A luminous atmospheric electrical discharge, also known as St. Elmo's Fire, appearing as pallid, tapering flames on the Pequod's masts and yard-arms during the typhoon.
- effect_on_crew
- enchanted, awed
- location_on_ship
- yard-arms, mast-heads
Relationships
- appeared onPequod
- description
- The phenomenon of corpusants manifested as pallid fire, tipping the yard-arms and burning silently on the three tall masts of the Pequod.
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- All the yard-arms were tipped with a pallid fire; and touched at each tri-pointed lightning-rod-end with three tapering white flames, each of the three tall masts was silently burning in that sulphurous air, like three gigantic wax tapers before an altar.
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- extracted_at
- 2026-03-02T00:16:33.802Z
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