From 1915.

A candle flame is spooked by a witch riding an owl, but the full moon approves.  Date uncertain.

Here's an eerie precursor to Princess Diana -- a "candle in the wind" paired with the similar name Diane.  By Mary Imlay Taylor, 1919.

From Pick Me Up, 1892.

This looks like something out of our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.  From Pick Me Up, 1895.

How to turn a can of salmon into a candle holder, from Popular Mechanics, 1910.

From English Illustrated, 1896.  This should also be of interest: How to Be Your Own Cat.

"It was not a pleasant expedition for a gentleman considerably over fifty."  From English Illustrated, 1895.

"What it feels like to have revoked," from The Sketch, 1909.

From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1880.

A fourfold light, and yet it illuminates six degrees of human science: "There is the light of sensitive knowledge, the light of the mechanical arts, the light of rational philosophy, of natural philosophy, and of moral philosophy, and lastly, the light of grace" (Augusta Theodosia Drane, Christian Schools and Scholars, 1867).  Our illustration of fourfold light appears in El Mundo Físico by A. Guillemin, 1882.

Here is revealed our favorite way of seeing the higher light.  Our illustration is from El Mundo Físico by A. Guillemin, 1882.

From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1872.

"The death-candle, the apparition, the ghost, formed so many articles of her creed, and she was not altogether without faith in the doctrine, that, by certain ceremonies and incantations, man may project his power into the sphere of the invisible world, and affect the movements and the thoughts of spirits."  From Sir Cosmo Digby by James Augustus St. John, 1843.

"Never burn your candle at both ends" (Erica Kane, Having It All, 1997).  Our illustration is from El Mundo Físico by A. Guillemin, 1882.

From Die Muskete, 1937.