A presence specifically associated with fire and light manipulation, rather than any visible apparition, is a distinctive and comparatively rare category of haunting within this wider register, most light-related phenomena elsewhere recorded as simple flickering or unexplained extinguishing rather than the more deliberate-sounding cycle of extinguishing and relighting described here.
The repeated, cyclical nature of the activity, out then lit again rather than simply out, suggests either a genuinely purposeful entity or a natural draught or ventilation quirk within the old building being reinterpreted through an already established haunted narrative, and no specific identity or motive has been traced for this presence in the sources consulted for this entry.
This phenomenon's coexistence with the separately recorded phantom monks at the same inn raises the possibility that the two traditions are connected, a monk perhaps understood locally to be responsible for tending candles as part of his former monastic duties, though no source consulted for this entry makes that connection explicit, and this register records the two as formally distinct reported phenomena.
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