errand-ghosts

Noun

errand-ghost (plural errand-ghosts)

1. A spirit or spiritual messenger; an angel.
   • Their simple directness of character may account for the well-nigh entire absence (as I said before) of all expression of religious hope. "God's Errand-Ghost," the Rider on the Pale Horse, has passed by that way, and one in the house — it may be the most loved of all, — is dead. There is no...1900, Eleanor Vere Boyle, Seven gardens and a palace
2. (broadly) Any spirit or ghostly messenger.
   • In regard of the previous question – do you also choose empty localizations deliberately? Is this to strengthen the fright for loneliness and silence, the same fright that the errand ghost of those haunted places feels?2005, C. Jürschik y P. García, Interview with Jonathan Boakes