Foxfire, and the other strange fires it was catalogued alongside. An illustrated encyclopaedia of 1712, quoting Chinese pharmacology, makes fire one of the five phases — vapour without substance — and divides it into twelve kinds; an Edo collection of village talk calls the fires of the fox, the weasel, the firefly and the spider the counterfeit fires, blue and without flame. Beside foxfire stood the corpse-light of old battlefields, put out by clashing two stirrups; the fire pillar that stood over the house that would burn; the straw-cape fire that wraps a person in flames only that person can see; and the dragon lamps that come in from the sea to a temple on an appointed night.