Will-o'-the-Wisp. (Jack o' Lantern.) Light seen over marshy places

Motif

Will-o'-the-Wisp. (Jack o' Lantern.) Light seen over marshy places.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Spirits and demons. · Other spirits and demons. · view the constellation · filed as F491

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Scholars’ trail — 8references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

IcelandicBoberg
Finnish-SwedishWessman 51 No. 438
DutchSinninghe FFC CXXXII 63f.
IndiaThompson-Balys
Africa (Fang)Einstein 96.
general Kittredge Witchcraft 215, 523 n. 22
general *Fb "lygtemand" II 473
general U.S. (Georgia): Harris Nights No. 28

Within the index

Filed under Other spirits and demons.

5 finer motifs beneath it

Will-o'-the-Wisp leads people astray Will-o'-the-Wisp lights people to their homes Will-o'-the-Wisp exorcised Will-o'-the-Wisp hops about Will-o'-the-Wisp's revenge

Filed beside it

Death on horseback Spirit of plague Land-spirits Stone-spirit Demon of gluttony Fire-spirits Sundry other spirits

Travels with

Witch in form of ball of fire. (Cf. F491, E742.2.)

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