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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 (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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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 W'Kabi is a fictional character appearing in Marvel Comics. The character, created by Roy Thomas...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • August 31st (2011) is loosely based on the French novel Will O' the Wisp by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, with the plot relocated to Oslo instead of Paris...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    Peggy, the Will O' the Wisp is a lost 1917 American drama film directed by Tod Browning. As described in a film magazine review, Neil Dacey (Carrigan)...
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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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    "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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    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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  • 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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    lightning bolt, and is a phenomenon distinct from St. Elmo's fire and will-o'-the-wisp. Some 19th-century reports describe balls that eventually explode and...
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    suicide inspired the book Will O' the Wisp by Pierre Drieu la Rochelle. The movie The Fire Within from Louis Malle is based on this book. The movie Oslo, August...
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  • "Flibbertigibbets". The nuns describe free-spirited Sister Maria as "A flibbertigibbet! A will-o'-the wisp! A clown!" in the show tune "Maria" from the 1959 Broadway...
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