What is "firefoxes"

Usage examples of "firefoxes".

The firefoxes were sentient and, therefore, self-conscious and self-motivated.

Also, the hope that the firefoxes would be able to transfer the contents of a mind to another body turned out to be false.

Something in the structure of the human neural system and, perhaps, the degree of intelligence, prevented the firefoxes from influencing the brains of Homo sapiens.

If the energy beings called mind-spirits or firefoxes could be used by old red witches to keep them animated, why didn’t the witches use them to transfer their mind contents to new bodies?

However, it was said that there had been a few times when firefoxes possessed idiots.

If this was so, why didn’t the witches use the firefoxes to possess idiots?

The old red witches using firefoxes to energize them after they had died had no blood, and it was only the firefoxes which kept them from sloughing away, from becoming dust.