This light, visible a few days before death, is the canwyll corph (corpse-candle).
Not long ago I was talking about the canwyll corph and kindred subjects with the postmistress of a Cardiganshire village, who remarked that she had only known one person who had ever seen a "corpse-light.
The Irish fetch, the Scotch wraith, and the Welsh Canwyll Corph, are alike in their teaching, but of this latter I shall speak more particularly when treating of death portents.
The corpse candle, or canwyll corph, was a light like that of a candle, which was said to issue from the house where a death was about to occur, and take the course of the funeral procession to the burial place.
Perhaps the most picturesque of the several death-omens popular in Wales is the Canwyll Corph, or Corpse Candle.
Not so much wonder, then, in Mrs Wingate believing she saw the canwyll corph.
As no mortal hand could thus carry it, surely it is the canwyll corph!
Your father before ye believed in the Canwyll Corph, and wi' more reason ought I, your mother.
Not so much wonder, then, in Mrs. Wingate believing she saw the canwyll corph.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "canwyll" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
