From Camp-Fire Musings by William Cunningham Gray, 1894.

From A Dream Quest by Anonymous, 1898.

"There she stood in the heart of the fire," from The World's Desire by Henry Rider Haggard, 1894.

From The Story of Ab by Stanley Waterloo, 1897.

"The troll gives a light," from The Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1897.

From Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, 1902.

Here's a precursor to a Talking Heads song.  The caption reads, "Dancing around the burning house."  From The Light-Ship Hand by Henry Frith, 1893.

From the Manly Palmer Hall Collection of Alchemical Manuscripts.

From Mr. World and Miss Church-Member by William Shuler Harris, 1903.

"The death-fires danced at night," from The Blue Poetry Book, edited by Andrew Lang, 1891.

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Here's a precursor to an AA meeting.  "And each as they sat by that bogwood fire told by turns his name and his history," from Illustrated British Ballads Old and New by George Barnett Smith, 1894.

From Kulturgeschichte by Friedrich Anton Heller von Hellwald, 1896.

From an ad in The Saturday Evening Post, 1839.

These apparitions appear in St. Nicholas magazine.

"The fire instantly blazed up," from The Adventures of a Stowaway by Frederick J. Whishaw, 1897.

"Seven or eight times they passed through the fire," from The Dacoit's Treasure by Henry Charles Moore, 1897.

"A tongue of pale blue flame shivered on the truck of the mast," from Ia by Q. [A. T. Quiller-Couch], 1896.

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