animalFireflyBeings · NatureFirefly as an animal people have named and used. Small light, night signal, brief glow — one living kind, not a single symbol.Firefly is historically related to Oak.In Burnell's Hobson-Jobson, Firefly sits with Oak in woodwork speech — named together on the working page.from Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell (ed. William Crooke) · Hobson-Jobson, 1886 (new ed. 1903)historically related to · sourced · documentedsourcesHobson-Jobson · Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell (ed. William Crooke)Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell, Hobson-Jobson (new ed. William Crooke, 1903).