Origin of the will-o'-the-wisp (jack-o'-lantern)

Motif

Origin of the will-o'-the-wisp (jack-o'-lantern).

Mythological motifs. · Miscellaneous explanations. · Miscellaneous explanations: origins. · Miscellaneous explanations: origins. · view the constellation · filed as A2817

Cited in the index

general Type 330. Africa (Fang): Trilles 138.

Within the index

2 finer motifs beneath it

Smith outwits devil, is admitted to neither heaven nor hell. The devil gives him a light to find his way back in the dark; he is known as the will-o'-the-wisp or jack-o'-lantern Will-o'-the-wisp is girl cursed by her mother for gathering plants for dyestuffs on Sunday. Will-o'-the-wisp is seen where girl disappeared

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