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The Will o' the Wisp and the Snake by Hermann Hendrich (1854–1931). In folklore, a will-o'-the-wisp, will-o'-wisp, or ignis fatuus (Latin for 'foolish flame'; [1] pl. ignes fatui), is an atmospheric ghost light seen by travellers at night, especially over bogs, swamps or marshes.
The name also appeared in the "Shinotogibōko", a collection of ghost stories from the Edo period. [12] Hidama (火魂, "fire spirit") An onibi from the Okinawa Prefecture. It ordinarily lives in the kitchen behind the charcoal extinguisher, but it is said to become a bird-like shape and fly around, and make things catch on fire. [13]
This form of the lidérc flies at night, appearing as a fiery light, a will o' the wisp, or even as a bird of fire. In the northern regions of Hungary and beyond, it is also known as ludvérc, lucfir. In Transylvania and Moldavia it goes by the names of lidérc, lüdérc, and sometimes ördög, literally, the Devil. While in flight, the lidérc ...
Opposite of a will o the wisp, as it appears to the lost and leads people back to where they want to be. Believed to be the same thing as the Shagfoal, Skriker, Padfoot and Barguest. Haizum – horse of the archangel Gabriel (Islam) Hippogriff – winged horse with the head and upper body of an eagle (French, England)
Figure of Joan the Wad above the "Joan the Wad and Piskey Shop" in Polperro, Cornwall. Joan the Wad is a mythological character in Cornish folklore.She is the Queen of the Pixies, which are tiny mythical creatures usually associated with the counties of Cornwall and Devon in England.
Will-o'-the-Wisp (Worldwide) – Spectral fire; Winged genie (Assyrian) – Bearded male figures sporting birds; Wirry-cow – Malevolent spirit; Witch (Worldwide) – Person who practices magic; Witte Wieven – Female, ancestral spirit; Wolpertinger – Forest animal comprised from various animal parts (similar to a Chimera)
Like the fiery folklore entity that lends it its name, “Will-o'-the-Wisp” burns bright with idiosyncratic ambition. Few cineastes out there are making deliciously defiant art like Rodrigues ...
Peggy, the Will O' the Wisp, a 1917 film; Will O' the Wisp, a 1931 novel by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle "Will o' the Wisp", a 1999 episode of children's television show So Weird; Willo the Wisp, a British cartoon series originally produced in 1981; Ori and the Will of the Wisps, a 2020 video game and sequel to Ori and the Blind Forest; The Will-O ...