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If you call a flashlight a torch, then what do you call those bright thingies the townfolk carry up to the castle when the good Doctor has let his creature out for a stroll in the village?

You know ... they look like rags wrapped around the ends of stout sticks, soaked in some flammable liquid and lit on fire so as to illuminate their immediate surroundings.

By what colloquialism do you refer to such appliances?

a Torch.
same name.