The BINGO Number for March 17 Is B1--CLOSED

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[sivanshemesh.livejournal.com]

Emotions Card - Joy
Games People Play Card - Backgammon
Horror Card - Wraiths, Wights (what's that?) and Ghosts
Hurt/Comfort Card - Pnuemonia
Talents and Skills Card - Translating
Aspects of Aragorn Card - Warrior

That's it, all the cards that answered this number... evil grin..

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Stamped you! Well done.

Wights - historically that just is another word for a living being. In some Germanic languages it today is used for small humanoid creatures, like garden gnomes (or, slightly derogatorily, for people).
However, ever since Tolkien called the creepy little monsters the Hobbits encounter on their way from Tom Bombadil's House to Bree "barrow-wights" (after an Icelandic saga, IIRC), "wight" seems to have made its way into English pop culture as some sort of undead monster.
And that's your etymology lesson for today ;)