#will-o-the-wisp

[weirdlookindog]

Hermann Hendrich (1854–1931) - Will-o-the-Wisp and the Snake, 1823

[oldschoolfrp]

“Will-o-wisps commonly haunt deserted, dangerous places such as bogs, fens, swamps, or catacombs where mires, quicksand, pit traps and the like are plentiful.” (AD&D Monster Manual, TSR, 1977) The Monster Manual II established that the boggart was an immature will-o-wisp.

[the-spooky-mind-of-spiderwish]

Will-o'-the-Wisp Retirement Village

[stone-cold-groove]

From 1870: an illustration depicting a Will-o’-the-Wisp sighting.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

("Will-o-the-wisp and Snake," Hermann Hendrich)

[Strange Company]

* * * * *

"Today it rained hard for much of the afternoon. It got dark fast, let go a hard, final downpour, and now the streets are clear and sharp-smelling. The light, these long last days of summer, is low enough to jewel and yellow, blur, and now, if I tilt my head, rainbow all the drops hanging from the phone line. It's that the colors weight the drops, slick them with fire and sea greens in shifts.

I walk through this rain thinking at one time I would point this all out to you in person, hold these drops on the wire against those astral stalks, iridesce the water, roll a pearly drop toward you, fray and sift asparagal light. But now you live in another city and you, in another country, and you (who have not yet even made an appearance here) and I no longer speak of such things.

But I want the shine to live. And before I know it, I am offering, tilting into the light and bringing forth . . . something: fine beads aloft, an abacus of pearls, say. I'm sowing some new green, but it's for you, Reader, whom I both know and do not know, who both exist and do not exist, who constitute an elsewhere far, further than I can imagine, years, maybe centuries away.

Whose elsewhere is a balm and a comfort." 

- Lia Purpura  :: Rough Likeness

 [via whiskey river]

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Hermann Hendrich - Will-o-the-wisp and Snake.

Source >> Meister Drucke

[hobgobknowsbest]

[boschcurrie]

Will-o’-the-Wisp (+detail) (Leo Lerch, 1888)

[the-evil-clergyman]

Nymphen und Irrlicht by Georg Janny (1922)

[pacingmusings]

Seen in 2023:

Will-O’-the-Wisp (Joao Pedro Rodrigues), 2022

[zanephillips]

Fogo-Fátuo (2022) dir. João Pedro Rodrigues

[godbirdart]

「 WILL O' WISP 」 🎶 reference sheet commission for magicbees

[thehmn]

Playing around with brushes.

Bottom right, random sad troll.

Bottom left, naughty lygtemand (lantern man) the Scandinavian equivalent to will-o'-the-wisp.

Top, in Scandinavian folk magic dogs were/are believed to be psychic with the ability to predict the future. They were especially good at predicting death’s arrival so people had entire systems dedicated to interpreting dogs behaviour and their various poses and placements when they slept as warnings about upcoming events.

[banditblvd]

William and the will o’ wisps make me incredibly happy

He’s like a tired cat owner

[lyadrielle]

Working on my first animated emote for my twitch channel! This was a lot of fun and a good way to start easy with Live 2D cubism too!

[weirdlookindog]

George Cruikshank (1792-1878) - Jack O'Lantern, 1842

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