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    In folklore, a will-o'-the-wisp, will-o'-wisp, or ignis fatuus (Latin for 'foolish flame'; pl. ignes fatui), is an atmospheric ghost light seen by travellers...
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  • Will o' the Wisp (Dr. Jackson Arvad) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is a physicist who gained control...
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  • Will O' the Wisp is the sixth studio album by Leon Russell. The album was released in 1975 on Shelter Records. It peaked at No. 30 on the Billboard albums...
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  • Look up will o' the wisp or will-o'-the-wisp in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Will-o'-the-wisp is the light phenomenon traditionally ascribed to ghosts...
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  • Will-o'-the-Wisp (Portuguese: Fogo-Fátuo) is a 2022 Portuguese musical romantic comedy film, directed by João Pedro Rodrigues. The film stars Mauro Costa...
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  • Will O' the Wisp (French: Le feu follet) is a 1931 novel by the French writer Pierre Drieu La Rochelle. It has also been published in English as The Fire...
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    in each Will o' the Wisp is another solitaire card game which was invented by Geoffrey Mott-Smith and is played the same way as Spiderette. The exception...
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    called jack-o'-lanterns (also known as will-o'-the-wisps). It is suggested that the name also has ties to the Irish legend of Stingy Jack, a drunkard...
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  • the name refers to the ghostly light will-o'-the-wisp from folklore. The other main characters were Arthur the caterpillar, as a gruff cockney; Mavis...
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  • novel Will O' the Wisp (1931) and Louis Malle's feature film The Fire Within (1963). The film premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. It won the Best...
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    native folklore, refers to either a will-o'-the-wisp, a mythical fire snake which guards against humans setting fire to the fields or forests, or a bull-like...
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    Lake Khanka (category Geography of the Russian Far East)
    Matthias Hase, the lake is named Lake Hinka and the river flowing from it called by the names Ousoury and Schur. On the 1752 map of d'Anville, the lake is named...
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  • The Fire Within (French: Le Feu follet, pronounced [lə fø fɔlɛ]; "The Manic Fire" or "Will-O'-the-Wisp") is a 1963 drama film written and directed by Louis...
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  • for Siouan shadow people. Essentially ghosts. Wewe Gombel Wili Will o' the wisp – Jack o lantern (English) Wraith Yurei Ghosts in Hindu Mythology: Bhoot...
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  • the Will o' the Wisp. The season finale featured Jack becoming possessed by a hyperactive Scottish Will o' the Wisp, also known as a Spunkie. The Spunkie...
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  • highlighted "I Don't Wanna", "Wedding in Berlin", and "Will-o-the-Wisp", and wrote in summary of the album: "'Happy people/Living in a sad world,' they celebrate...
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    haunt specific locations and to lead travelers astray using will-o'-the-wisps. Before the advent of modern medicine, fairies were often blamed for sickness...
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    1900s on a road in Martebo on the Swedish island of Gotland. In Sweden, it is believed that the will-o'-the-wisp represents the soul of an unbaptized person...
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  • western Maryland Colgate Wisp, a single-use toothbrush Agriocnemis, a genus of damselfly commonly known as a wisp Will-o'-the-wisp (disambiguation) This...
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    "Will o' the Wisp" to be "the most virtuosic of the set", evoking MacDowell's love for "extreme speed". The music historian Neil Leonard cited "Will o'...
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  • release their spirits. Will-o'-the-wisps have been reported in the area of Sandwick in Dunrossness, supposedly announcing the approaching death of a local...
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    (bilwis [de]) Also, the Irrlicht (≈ will-o'-the-wisp), called Dickepôten locally in the southern Altmark, were said to be the souls of unbaptized children....
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  • mouth in the mud. The phenomenon, which seems to be a variation of will-o'-the-wisp folklore, is now dismissed as sightings of combustible marsh gas. A...
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  • 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Dorothy Walker is a fictional character in Marvel Comics. She was created by Stuart Little and...
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  • rather like a Will-o'-the-wisp. The menacing creatures would often disappear at dawn. The word duergar is likely to be derived from the dialectal words...
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  • elite version of the Wild Pack, the Outlaws. The Outlaws feature Sable associates Prowler, Puma, Rocket Racer, Sandman and Will o' the Wisp. They encounter...
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    ignis fatuus or will o' the wisp) or, in its more benign form as a featherless chicken. In Brazil and the rainforests of the Amazon basin, the Amazon river...
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    called "revontulet" (literally "foxfires") in the Finnish language List of bioluminescent fungi Will-o'-the-wisp "Congo". Africa. January 16, 2013. BBC One...
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  • version of the second movement of Joaquín Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez (1939) is included, as well as a piece called "Will o' the Wisp", from Manuel...
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    sometimes the words "will-o'-the-wisp" or "jack-o'-lantern" are translated into Japanese as "onibi". According to the Wakan Sansai Zue written in the Edo period...
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