Talk:Will-o'-the-wisp

(Piezoelectric)
Piezoelectric is the accepted spelling of the word linked in this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.251.138.223 (talk) 03:15, 18 March 2005
 * Thanks. I fixed it.  You can, of course, fix anything like that which you find by yourself. --  03:17, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

(Balts)
I see that they write, "Estonians and Latvians amongst some other groups believed that a will-o'-the-wisp marked the location of a treasure deep." I have checked all the sources listed (and a few others) for the original source for this statement but can't find it. I would appreciate some help. Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Clerk22 (talk • contribs) 21:29, 26 July 2007

What they mean in Sweden
The article says in Sweden that will-o-the-wisps are unbaptized souls, but the article connected to this one on the Swedish language Wikipedia (article title "Irrbloss") says they are souls that did equal amounts of good and evil in their lives so they didn't go to heaven or hell. I don't know which is correct, but it's something to look into. 195.198.29.229 (talk) 21:04, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

rm "popular culture" mentions
This is an global geographical feature is ubiquitously and historically mentioned internationally in a vast array of poems, films, tv and fiction. Useless to try to have any kind of meaningful list. The science section is long and unbroken. It would be better to break it into meaningful blocks. Anna (talk) 22:49, 30 July 2023 (UTC)

Marfa lights, etc are not will-o-the-wisp
Will-o-the-wisp as described in this article is a phenomenon of marshes, bogs, etc. and has something to do with the chemistry of marsh gases, even if the exact details (conventional combustion vs "cool flame" vs chemiluminescence, etc) are somewhat uncertain.

The Marfa lights are in a semi-desert area and have a totally different proposed explanation (car headlights or some mirage reflecting/altering them).

This article shouldn't be all kinds of weird lights people report - that's the general atmospheric ghost light article. Vultur~enwiki (talk) 22:16, 4 June 2024 (UTC)