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Answer for the clue "Eerie glow in the woods ", 7 letters:
foxfire

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Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 474 Housing Units (2000): 324 Land area (2000): 2.865236 sq. miles (7.420926 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.062649 sq. miles (0.162259 sq. km) Total area (2000): 2.927885 sq. miles (7.583185 sq. km) FIPS code: 24570 Located within: North ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Panellus stipticus , Mt. Vernon, Wisconsin (long exposure) Omphalotus olearius Omphalotus nidiformis (seen above), glowing in the dark A flashlight was used for fill Foxfire , also sometimes called "fairy fire", is the bioluminescence created by some species ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. bioluminescence created by some types of fungus

Usage examples of foxfire.

Sashire and Foxfire waited outside the car, and it sprung to life when Antonio turned the key.

Sashire or Foxfire would have shot him, but that was impossible for them, for any magical creature.

He wanted to ask if Foxfire was really her brother, but was afraid it would make the alpha laugh hard enough to split open his stitches.

Riverview Plantation, Foxfire Hunting Preserve and Quail Ridge, all in Georgia.

It glittered with reflections of foxfire, moonglo, and the flame insects.

The waiter, despite his youth, had already perfected the art of bemused superiority endemic to such establishments as The Foxfire Grille, located on Belvedere Street in the heart of the Mount Adams District.

Barbara stood for several seconds in the middle of the sidewalk in front of The Foxfire Grille, her stomach rumbling its confusion.

Any time she saw one of the chunks of foxfire vanish, she was supposed to throw.

And there was confusion, a shrapnel of walls, for a moment those dull reptilian eyes glowing a red that was lifeless in its ancient light, and I thought of Breca's eyes and what the poet says of foxfire, and there was heat unsurpassed like the Cataclysm had come again, then complete and abiding dark.

The patches of ethereal blue foxfire became heavier and more frequent.

When Foxfire leaped out from his hiding place, Bunlap did not so much as blink, but instead hurled the knife he had back and ready.

She was unfamiliar with her own responses— Foxfire marveled that this could be so—but perhaps she would confuse a moment's sleep with the wondrous, languid haze that followed their private celebration.

I am half-elven, Foxfire, and I will be gone before the branches of these two oaklings meet overhead.

Then there was the excitement of all the new things we might see in these rich, dark, storied mountains--giant salamanders and towering tulip trees and the famous jack-o-lantern mushroom, which glows at night with a greenish phosphorescent light called foxfire.