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Meanings of will-o'-wisp in English

Russian
болотные огни
Portuguese
fogo tolo
Spanish
fuego fatuo
Catalan
focs follets
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Atmospheric ghost lights.

      болотные огни
      Usage of will-o'-wisp in English
      1
      My will-o'-wisp fate you know: do you recollect a Sunday we spent together in Eglinton woods?
      The Letters of Robert Burns
      2
      She is the Fenella of the fireside; the will-o'-wisp of our souls; our gaiety; the life of the house.
      Women in the Life of Balzac
      3
      Followed stream down to very shoal bay of our big water, which like the will-o'-wisp has led us on.
      A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador
      4
      How dark must have been the night in which such a Will-o'-wisp was mistaken for a star!
      Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 1