What is Will-O'-the-Wisp?

Will-O'-the-Wisp, also known as Will-O'-Wisp, is sometimes called Jack-O'-Lanttern, "Spioklights" or "Ghost Lights". It is a phenomenon of anomalous natural lights, often when they are seen at all (which is rarely) found hovering above the peat bog. Links to Will-O'-the-Wisp date at least to the Middle Ages.

One early poem about the subject goes as follows:

in each hollow
One hundred Wrymushed Wisps.
- Dafydd AP Gwily (trans. Wirt Sikes), 1340

The ordinary Latin name for phenomena, Ignis fatus means "foolish fire", also suggests that people have seen it at least a thousand years. Will-O'-the-Wisps are small floating lights, sometimes seen in groups that show different movement patterns. These, including stationary, slow movement or most famous: the unpredictable, arrows that some say resemble intelligence. The arrow movement was inspired by many folktals, Viaout Europe and Russia said that Will-O'-the-Wisp is actually a small piece of burning coal held byThe spirit of a man who denied the entrance to heaven and hell. The convicted spirit uses light to conduct passengers.

Traditional jack-o'-lcerna carved out of the pumpkin in Halloween was actually named after the Will-O'-the-Wisp myth. One version of the story says that the ghost put the burning lump of coal into a carved pumpkin. Other cultures consider the will to play as a hint of placement of buried treasure. Anyone looking for such a treasure should be quite difficult to dig in the swamp. The phenomenon seems to be all over the world with traditional names for Will-O'-the-Wisp on as diverse as the Philippines, Thailand, Norway, Utah, Lithuania and Japan.

Scientists have provided at least a few explanations for the Will-O'-the-Wisp phenomenon, but none of them has been extensively verified. The most common explanation is that Will-O'-the-Wisp is generated by oxidation of methane gases and hydrogen phosphide produced by the decay of organic material in the swamps. It turned out thatE These chemicals provide light if they are combined under laboratory conditions. Experiments of Italian chemists Luigi Garlaschelli and Paolo Boschetti were cited, although independent confirmation was missing.

Another possible explanation is that the will-the-Wisps will are synonymous with "earthly headlights", lights that are considered generated by piezoelectric (predominant pressure on electricity), such as quartz, are administered under tectonic tension. This would partially explain the occasionally unpredictable movement of Will-O'-the-Wisps. Yet, extensive experimentation with the confirmation of this hypothesis has not yet been carried out seriously.