Will-o'-the-wisp (disambiguation)

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Will-o'-the-wisp is the light phenomenon traditionally ascribed to ghosts.

Will-o'-the-wisp may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Will O' the Wisp (novel), a 1931 novel by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
• Peggy, the Will O' the Wisp, 1917 film
• Will o' the wisps, fictional characters in the 2012 animated film Brave
• Willo the Wisp, a British cartoon series originally produced in 1981
• "Will o' the Wisp", a 1999 episode of children's television show So Weird; see List of So Weird episodes
• "Canción del fuego fatuo", a song from the 1915 ballet El amor brujo, known in English as "Song of the will-o'-the-wisp" or jut "Will-O'-The-Wisp"
• Transcendental Etude No. 5 (Liszt), also known as Wills o' the Wisp
• Will O' the Wisp (album), a 1975 album by Leon Russell, and its title track
• Will o' the Wisp, a song from Opeth's 2016 album Sorceress

People

• Willie Pep (1922–2006), an American boxer also nicknamed "Will o' the Wisps"
• Jeff Hardy (born 1977), an American professional wrestler who had the ring name "Willow the Whisp"

Characters

• Will O' The Wisp (comics), a Marvel comic book supervillain physicist
• Will-o'-wisp (Dungeons & Dragons), in game series
• Will-o'-Wisp, an "abomination" character in the Deadlands roleplaying game's 1998 catalog Rascals, Varmints, and Critters
• Will O' the Wisp, a minor character in Goethe's 'Faust Part 1.' in Scene XXI Walpurgis Night

Ship

• SS Will-o'-Wisp a Confederate blockade running steamer. Ran ashore on February 3, 1865 while trying to get into Galveston.^[1]

Amusement

• Will-o'-the-wisp, a variation of Spiderette solitaire game
• Ignis Fatuus, a haunted ship attraction at Morey's Piers

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