Reading this thread made me think of my experience with salamanders. I was at my brother's cabin in northern Wisconsin. When night came we built a big fire in his fire pit in the front yard. As we sat on the log seats around the fire little things kept scampering through the leaves back and forth in and out of the fire pit.
My brother said those are salamanders. We even managed to catch one. He said they do this all the time. They come out of the leaves and run right into the fire. Attracted by the heat or light? And when they feel the heat they run out again. Back and forth, back and forth the whole time we sat there.
Maybe that's why they are associated with fire, and the idea of them not being able to die, but birthed in fire.
I'll tell you, it was one of the strangest things I've ever seen. It was fascinating to just sit there and watch them.
The salamanders on the wands court have a whole new meaning for me. I never look at them without thinking of that night.