Will-o'-the-wisp (disambiguation)

Will-o'-the-wisp (disambiguation)

Will-o'-the-wisp is a term for a floating ball of light in folklore.

The term and variants on it have been used for other purposes.

Art and television

* "Willo the Wisp", a 1983 animated series for children shown by the BBC
*"Peggy, the Will O' the Wisp", a 1917 film directed by Tod Browning
* "Will o' the Wisp", the fifth Transcendental Étude, by Franz Liszt.
*"Will O' the Wisp", a song by the American dark-punk group Christian Death
*"Will O' the Wisp", an album and title track by Leon Russell
*"Will o' the Wisp", a painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist Arthur Hughes

Games

* Will o' the wisp, a solitaire card game similar to Spider

People

*Willow the Wisp, wrestling name of Jeff Hardy
*"Will o' the Wisps", nickname for Hall of Fame feather-weight champion Willie Pep

Fiction

* Will o' the Wisp (comics), a Spider-Man supervillain
*Will-o'-Wisp (Dungeons & Dragons), a monster in the "Dungeons & Dragons" game
*Will o' the Wisp, a minor boss in "Soul Calibur III" that fights similar to Inferno.

*"For other uses, see Will-o'-the-wisps in popular culture.


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