Podcasts about will o the wisp

In this edition of The Naked Scientists: US scientists have turned skin cells into human embryos for the very first time. We unpack the significance. Also ahead, the legacy of the primatologist and conservationist, Jane Goodall, who has died at the age of 91. Plus, we hear from a chemist who believes he has cracked the mystery of ghostly lights we call will-o'-the-wisps... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Send us a message!We're going to talk about some fascinating creatures today and for one of them, the scientific explanation behind the phenomenon! Join us on this magical journey where you should probably NOT go towards the light, but maybe stay in the sunlight. Depending on who you meet first. Music is by Alexander Nakarada.Support the Show.

It's time for some whimsy! We're going way back in time, and across to pond to talk about the First Jack-o'-Lantern! Get ready to turn(ip) it up because this ep is all about warding off evil, lighting your way, and thousands of pre-pumpkin years of glowing jack! You'll learn about Samhain, bogs, will-o'-the-wisps, and so much more! Plus, the MouthGarf Report... and I See What You Did There!Have a comment? Want to share some whimsy? Have a First for us? Maybe you want to be a guest on the show? Email us at debutbuddies@gmail.comListen to Kelly and Chelsea's awesome horror movie podcast, Never Show the Monster. ("Grr... don't show me." - The Monster)Get some sci-fi from Spaceboy Books.Get down with Michael J. O'Connor's music!Next time: First Ghost Testimony

Email us!  indarkplacespod@hotmail.comFacebook:https://www.facebook.com/indarkplacespodcastYouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdrL6rsNSKeBA31NcU3reXAPatreon:https://www.patreon.com/indarkplacesThe ABCs Of Salvation:A.  ADMIT THAT YOU'RE A SINNER. This is where that godly sorrow leads to genuine repentance for sinning against the righteous God and there is a change of heart, we change our mind and God changes our hearts and regenerates us from the inside out.B.  BELIEVE IN YOUR HEART THAT JESUS CHRIST DIED FOR YOUR SINS, WAS BURIED, AND THAT GOD RAISED JESUS FROM THE DEAD. Believe in your heart that Jesus Christ died for your sins, was buried, and that God raised Jesus from the dead. This is trusting with all of your heart that Jesus Christ is who he said he was.C.  CALL UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD. This is trusting with all of your heart that Jesus Christ is who he said he was. Every single person who ever lived since Adam will bend their knee and confess with their mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord, the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings.

This episode, we find out a little bit more about Will O The Wisp and why he is doing these crimes seemingly reluctantly . Also, will Jonah be successful with his new Spider-Slayer?

What happens when you upset a group of senior citizens? You get Aunt May : The Protester!! See how she courageously fights for justice and fair treatment for the inhabitants in her building and isn't taking no crap from no one!! Oh and there's also some stuff about Spidey fighting a guy called Will O The Wisp and Jonah in a new Spider-Slayer.

Welcome to the shorter, but just as fascinating world of 'Modern Myths'. Bonus episodes that will run alongside our main series.The first chapter behind these smaller Urban Legends is 'Will-O'-the Wisp', strange little blue flames that have been sighted around the world for hundreds of years. Some consider them nothing but folklore, some consider them a species of there, and others consider them a simple strange act of nature.___________If you enjoy the show and want to support us by leaving a tip or subscribing, click on the 'Support the show' link at the bottom.For more information on the show and to find all of our social accounts to ensure you are up to date on all we do, visit https://linktr.ee/urbanlegends.podcast.Support the show

Don't let the Feu Follet draw you from your path.  Hear all about this phenomenon known as Le Feu Follet or the Will o' the Wisp in E39.Be sure to follow us on Instagram an Facebook for photos and other show info.T-shirt contest coming soon so be on the look out for that!Citations Kinchen, C. (2021, May 4). The mystery of the louisiana feu follet. Pelican State of Mind. Retrieved March 18, 2022, from https://pelicanstateofmind.com/louisiana-love/mystery-louisiana-feu-follet/ 10 things you didn't know about Louisiana swamps. Airboat Adventures. (2018, March 22). Retrieved March 18, 2022, from https://airboatadventures.com/things-louisianas-swamps/ Thomas Creede. (1596, January 1). Of ghostes and Spirites, walking by night: And of Straunge noyses, crackes, and Sundrie forewarnings: Which commonly happen before the death of men: Great slaughters, and alterations of kingdoms. : Lavatar, Ludwig : Free download, Borrow, and streaming. Internet Archive. Retrieved March 19, 2022, from https://archive.org/details/ofghostesspirite00lava 

All kinds of cool stuff to kick off Daylights Savings! Yep - they are taking our hour of sleep for 6 months again...Bron, Anth, Fam and Rex Hunter will all be in (virtually) for the show.Bron and Fam will be catching us up on all the news currently - including some great events around the Bay and via the Yarra Riverkeeper Association. And they will be reviewing My Octopus Teacher as a Netflix fill in lockdown time!Anth will be talking whale diving with Simon Mustoe (ecologist and founder of Wildiaries) about the recent findings about Cuvier Beaked Whales are their diving abilities (based this: https://www.livescience.com/whales-break-diving-record.html). So how on earth can whales do that?And Rex is talking about the ex opium trader Will O The Wisp that was lost off Queenscliff in 1853. And he promises there are no drugs left on board.See you on the good ship Marinara Sunday (at the new daylight savings time!).All kinds of cool stuff to kick off Daylights Savings! Yep - they are taking our hour of sleep for 6 months again...Bron, Anth, Fam and Rex Hunter will all be in (virtually) for the show.Bron and Fam will be catching us up on all the news currently - including some great events around the Bay and via the Yarra Riverkeeper Association. And they will be reviewing My Octopus Teacher as a Netflix fill in lockdown time!

Episode 206: Finally, a good-ass Star Wars video game! Kirk, Jason, and Maddy take a deep dive into Jedi Fallen Order, the great new Star Wars single-player action-adventure game from Respawn. They talk about its influences, its difficulty, and whether Uncharted and Metroid really harmonize. Then they get into Half-Life VR and the tepid launch of Google Stadia (46:35) followed by some off-topic talk (1:04:49) on The Righteous Gemstones and Musicophilia. Music pick of the week: “Will O’ The Wisp” from Sketches of Spain by Miles Davis & Gil Evans

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Crusader ChroniclesEpisode 024: February 1977Issue/s: Amazing Spider-Man #168Listen here: Crusader Chronicles - Episode 024: February 1977We’re pleased to tell you that Spidey’s greatest foe, Will O’ The Wisp, is the feature star of Amazing Spider-Man 168! Or, we’re bummed to tell you that. Or something. We are super conflicted!  You should definitely listen. Or not. We don’t care. We do care. This is a bit. We do bits. We also digress a lot. Come listen!Opening [0:00:49]Podcast promo - Longbox Crusade - [0:03:00]1st Comic Issue Review/Discussion [0:05:12]Podcast promo - Hamilton vs Burr - [0:39:59]Crusader Comments [0:40:27]Closing [0:44:10]Outtakes [0:47:04]Check out Jarrod Alberich, The Yard Sale Artist website  at: https://theyardsaleartist.bigcartel.com/Let us know what you think!Leave a comment by sending an email to: contact@longboxcrusade.comBecome a Crusaders Club Member:https://www.patreon.com/LongboxCrusadeThis podcast is a member of the LONGBOX CRUSADE Network:Visit the WEBSITE: https://longboxcrusaderchronicles.blogspot.com/ or http://www.longboxcrusade.com/Follow on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/LongboxCrusadeLike the FACEBOOK page: https://www.facebook.com/LongboxCrusadeFollow on INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/longboxcrusadeSubscribe to the YOUTUBE Channel: https://goo.gl/4LkhovSubscribe to the podcast on iTunes at:https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/longbox-crusade-crusader-chronicles/id1271614264?mt=2Or the main Longbox Crusade podcast on iTunes at:https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-longbox-crusade/id1118783510?mt=2Thank you for listening and we hope you have enjoyed this episode of the Longbox Crusade: Crusader Chronicles.Please join us for the next episode as we continue on the crusade to "Read Them All!"All songs, sound clips, and characters discussed are copyright of their respective copyright holders, and no infringement is intended.

Crusader Chronicles Episode 024: February 1977 Issue/s: Amazing Spider-Man #168 Listen here: Crusader Chronicles - Episode 024: February 1977 We’re pleased to tell you that Spidey’s greatest foe, Will O’ The Wisp, is the feature star of Amazing Spider-Man 168! Or, we’re bummed to tell you that. Or something. We are super conflicted!  You should definitely listen. Or not. We don’t care. We do care. This is a bit. We do bits. We also digress a lot. Come listen! Opening [0:00:49] Podcast promo - Longbox Crusade - [0:03:00] 1st Comic Issue Review/Discussion [0:05:12] Podcast promo - Hamilton vs Burr - [0:39:59] Crusader Comments [0:40:27] Closing [0:44:10] Outtakes [0:47:04] Check out Jarrod Alberich, The Yard Sale Artist website  at: https://theyardsaleartist.bigcartel.com/ Let us know what you think! Leave a comment by sending an email to: contact@longboxcrusade.com Become a Crusaders Club Member: https://www.patreon.com/LongboxCrusade This podcast is a member of the LONGBOX CRUSADE Network: Visit the WEBSITE: https://longboxcrusaderchronicles.blogspot.com/ or http://www.longboxcrusade.com/ Follow on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/LongboxCrusade Like the FACEBOOK page: https://www.facebook.com/LongboxCrusade Follow on INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/longboxcrusade Subscribe to the YOUTUBE Channel: https://goo.gl/4Lkhov Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/longbox-crusade-crusader-chronicles/id1271614264?mt=2 Or the main Longbox Crusade podcast on iTunes at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-longbox-crusade/id1118783510?mt=2 Thank you for listening and we hope you have enjoyed this episode of the Longbox Crusade: Crusader Chronicles. Please join us for the next episode as we continue on the crusade to "Read Them All!" All songs, sound clips, and characters discussed are copyright of their respective copyright holders, and no infringement is intended.

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In ancient times when the night was so much darker than it is today, stories were told that endure to this day. It's easy for scholars to assume that, because written records are a permanent way to record history of any kind, many folktales from literary cultures are assumed to be recent ones. Familiar fairytales such as the ones The Brothers Grimm recorded in their early research in the Black Forest of Europe feel familiar enough as to be from a more recent time in history and not from a remote age like Native American stories. However, The Brothers Grimm were convinced that the stories they researched were, in fact, as ancient as their Native American counterparts. Folklorists since have had difficulty believing this, however, because they are scientists, solid evidence is the only type of evidence they will consider. Recent research by anthropologists has confirmed that, perhaps, The Brothers Grimm were correct after all and the fairy tales that are so familiar to us have an older, more alien origin in languages and cultures that left so little behind as to be forgotten. According to this new research, the famous story "Beauty and The Beast", which was once thought to originate in the 16th century, is instead 4,000 years old. One story is mentioned in this article, however, as being older than writing itself and being invented at a time when mammoths walked the earth. It is a lesser known story, but is possibly an inspiration for Goethe's novel "Faust" and also the inspiration behind Jack-O-Lanterns on Halloween. In Acadian French, the name for this spirit is "Feu Follet" or "Foolish Fires". Despite having Christian overtones in many versions, stories of the Will-O-The-Wisp or "The Smith and The Devil" are estimated to be 6,000 years old. At the root of these many versions and names across many countries and centuries, there is one commonality: a mysterious and bright ball of light that appears in the dead of night. Travelers who walk on country roads by night usually spot these strange lights, but not always. There are many explanations for these haunting lights worldwide, with most being supernatural. For example, the Malecite tribe and the people of Southern Wales see the lights as omens of death. In Wales, these lights are called 'corpse candles', and their color and size further specify the gender and age of the doomed person. In Mexico and Africa, these lights are witches and sorcerers on the move towards a remote place to practice secret and dangerous magic. In Argentina, the lights are 'Luz Mala' or 'evil lights'. This light kills anyone who looks at it, yet it will pursue hapless people at night and try to get them to look at it. In Japan, these lights are called "Hitodama" and are believed to be either a human soul or a ball of supernatural energy. Such balls of fiery light are either found in graveyards or around fox-like spirits called 'Kitsune'. Kitsune are famous shapeshifters in Japanese mythology who either trick humans into violent misdeeds or help rice farmers as servants of the rice god, Inari. This version is adapted from the book ""Will O The Wisp" and is adapted from Ireland and New Brunswick, Canada. It describes one of the most common supernatural explanations: A condemned soul tries to lure travelers at night to their death: There was once a man named Willy O'Bannon who immigrated to America from Ireland to seek his fortune with his family. He took up the blacksmith trade and performed small metalworking jobs such as making and attaching horseshoes and nails. He settled near a small village in Canada, where he had regular work. None of this work helped him to feed his family, however. It was so difficult to earn enough to keep body and soul together that one day, Willy grew frustrated and said that he would sell his soul to The Devil just for the money. Not long after this happened, a man dressed in black wearing a tall hat came to his door. Willy said "I have never seen the likes of you in these parts before. Who are you?" With a sly smile that made Willy feel uneasy, the stranger replied "You don't know me, but know you, Willy O'Bannon. In fact, I heard you just the other day make me an offer. Was it your soul for the money?" Willy gulped in fear. This was The Devil come to take him up on his offer.  The Devil continued. "I will make sure that you get all the money that you will ever need or want for seven years. But after seven years, I will arrive to take you to Hell." Feeling that seven years was a good long time, and feeling hunger in his belly, he accepted. The next morning, Willy's life changed. He got enough money to feed his family, buy a new house and workshop and even shared his wealth with the community. During this time, another strange figure appeared. It was a cold and rainy day, and an old, tired and cold man came to Willy's door. Willy fed him, warmed him up by the fireplace and gave him a place to sleep while the storm outside raged. The old man smiled at Willy as he ate his porridge. "I am an angel." The stranger said. "For your generosity, you have three wishes." Having already met an angel before (for The Devil is an angel too), Willy believed him. He thought for a moment. Then, he smiled. "I want three magical items. The first one is a chair that allows no one to stand up unless I say so. The second is an anvil that no one can let go of unless I say so. The third is a steel purse that does not let anything out of it unless I open it." The stranger frowned, but said. "It is done." When the seven years had passed, Willy was shaving and he heard the knock at the door. He knew who it was. "It's time to go, Willy." The Devil said. "I'm still shaving, sir." Willy replied. "Come in and have a seat. I'll be finished in a moment. I want to look my best when facing damnation." The Devil sat in the only chair in the room when he entered. As soon as he tried to rise from the chair, he felt he could not move. Willy wasted no time. He took an iron bar from his workshop and started to smack The Devil with it. "Stop! Please be merciful." "To you, Father of Evil? I think not." Willy replied before smacking him again. "Wait!" The Devil shouted before Willy posed to swing the bar. He listened to a Devil now beaten black and blue. "I will give you another seven years of wealth if you let me go form this chair." "No tricks?" "Of course not." The Devil said. With that, Willy commanded The Devil to stand up and in a flash, The Devil ran out of the house and back to Hell again to nurse his wounds. The next seven years passed faster than the first. Again, the familiar knock on the door was heard. "Come out, Willy! It's time to go, as per our agreement." "Of course, sir." Willie said. "Please come in. I need your help." The Devil came in and saw Willy organizing his workshop. "I need to leave this place in order for my family, so they don't have a horrible mess to clean up. Can you hand me that anvil over there, so I may put it away?" The Devil, confident in his strength, tried to lift to anvil. However, he found that he could not move his hand from it. He was rooted to the spot. Again, Willy took another iron rod and beat The Devil black and blue one more time. "No! Not again!" "Give me seven more years, Devil, and I'll release you." "Fine, just stop! Please!" Again, Willy commanded The Devil to take his hand off the anvil and again, The Devil wasted no time to leave. This span of seven years went along even faster than the last two. This time, The Devil did not come inside, but Willy left with the steel purse on his person. They walked through the town square and past a pub. "Say, Old Devil, since you'll be taking me somewhere hot and dry, could you do me the kindness of letting me have a drink for the road to Hell?" Not seeing any tricks this time, The Devil nodded. "I'll change myself into a coin for you, so don't worry about the cost." As soon as The Devil turned himself into a coin, Willy grabbed it, put it inside of the steel purse and bolted back home. He stuck the purse into the forge fire and kicked up the flames as hot as he could manage with the bellows. With each puff, The Devil wailed in pain. "I'll get you for this Willie!" "Then I'll just keep going if that's your attitude." He continued to kick up the flames until the purse was almost ready to melt. "If you let me out, I will never bother you again! I forfeit my claim on you!" With that, Willie used his blacksmith tools to open the purse. Howling in pain, with a smoking backside, The Devil bolted out of the house in a blackened whirlwind. Willie lived well until his death of old age. But when he reached the Gates of Heaven, St. Peter did not open the pearly gates. "I was always generous with my wealth and even took in one of your own. What is the meaning of this?" St. Peter shook his head. "That angel wanted to save you. The wishes were all attempts to pull you out of your pact with Hell. But instead, you kept yourself in it and played all those tricks on our enemy and hold onto wealth rather than abandon it. It was fun to watch you torture Satan, but because you wasted your chances to be saved and you got greedy, we can't let you in. So Willie accepted defeat and came to Hell's less than shiny gates. As soon as The Devil opened the gates to peek outside, his eyes widened and he shut the gate. "Oh God! Not you again!!!" The Devil shouted. Willie shook his head. "I'm not allowed up in Heaven sir. It looks like you get me in the end. You win." "Not a chance! After all you put me through, I don't ever want to see your face again, let alone for the rest of eternity! This place will freeze over before I let you in." "Then tell me where to go or I'll wait outside here and sneak in. You'll have to open those gates sooner or later, considering how many sinners are alive now." The Devil knew Willy was right and he knew that Willy was very clever. But The Devil came up with an idea. He took a piece of straw and lit it with a spark of hellfire. He opened the gate wide enough to reach out and hand it to him. "Here! You go get me souls I can use for firewood! Use this!  I'm sure with your wily ways, you'll find a way to get them to kill themselves. Don't get any ideas about sneaking in here, though! Now be off with you and don't ever come back!" And whenever that tiny little spark of light appears in the dead of night, it's Old Willy's ghost trying to complete his task: a task intended to keep him away from Hell. He likes the souls to drown, so don't follow him or he'll mislead you into a deadly trick, just as he misled The Devil three times. Even in modern times, when there is so much more light to be seen even at the darkest times of the night, there are still sightings of mysterious phantom lights. Rather than resort to sometimes frightening answers with a supernatural bent, the two most popular scientific theories relate to biochemistry. The first theory was written by  Allesandro Volta, a chemist who inspired the name for the standard measurement of electricity: the volt. He also created the world's first recorded battery since the ancient batteries first crafted in Babylon and Egypt. According to Volta, the balls of mysterious lights were not lost souls, witches or faeries, but swamp gas. According to this theory, plant and animal matter in a wetland decomposes and  methane gas builds up. Eventually, it must bubble up and fly out of the wet bottom and into the air. If there is lightning or some static discharge in the same area, the gas will be ignited like a match over an open torch head. At the time that Volta published this theory, which was after he discovered the existence of methane gas in 1776, it caused controversy. By this time, the supernatural legends behind will-o-the-wisps was so commonplace that it was an unquestioned fact. Just as Benjamin Franklin faced controversy for claiming that lighting was not caused by the wrath of God, so did Volta face a crowd angry with the possibility that, maybe, the phantom lights they sometimes saw was nothing to fear. Even today, swamp gas is an explanation that is often not taken seriously or accepted. Nevertheless, it is undeniable that methane gas is a byproduct of natural decay. Wherever there is a large amount of biomass left to decompose, there will be a buildup of this gas.This theory has further evidence to support it with the observed fact that as wetlands in England have been drained and developed, instances of will-o-the-wisp sightings have declined. The second explanation is bio-luminescent fungi. Some species of fungi will glow in the dark, either to attract insects that help spread the spores or to deter animals from eating it. Often, these fungi will appear either on top of trees or on decomposing logs on the forest floor. It is commonly a dim light, but can be bright enough to read by on rare occasions. The layman's term for this natural phenomena is 'foxfire'. On Wikipedia's listing of bio-luminescent fungi, there are over 23 species in North America and 22 species in Europe. The first species on this list, Armillaria calvescens, is a species that exists in Canada and New England. Specifically, it lives on maple trees abundant in New England and Canada. As if in commemoration of these stories, the scientists who discovered the chemical that lights up living things call it Luciferum, a name derived from one of many names for The Devil. Today, the genes for this chemical's production and expression are vital for use in the study of genetics. A recent study has involved making cats glow in the dark to see if it is possible to implant HIV resistant genes into humans to combat AIDS. Someday, we may have feline Will-O-The-Wisps roaming the country and spooking travelers because of this. For now, however, we have only ghosts and gases for explaining why there are errant lights that seem to come from the night with no explanation. It is clear from all of this evidence that this is a story with roots so old, that it is remembered long after it's original language has been completely forgotten. It has come to be retold in many languages across continents and helps to explain a phenomena that continues to intrigue people today. Anthropologists who discovered this story's true age suggest this is a tale that tells of how Man attempts to change his fate, but only ends up doing so in an unpleasant way. This same theme appears in the latest incarnation of the legend in Disney and Pixar's 2012 movie Brave. In it, Princess Merida is lured by tiny blue flame spirtes called "Will-O-The-Wisps". Just like Willie from the Irish and Maritimes version, she tries to defy her fate with magic and faces unforeseen misfortune as a result. There is another moral to these stories that is new to us, however. While languages come and go and cultures appear and disappear, stories remain today as monuments of the imagination. Even after temples and cities crumble down and their histories fade into the dark twilight of time, stories, like Will-O-The-Wisps, briefly appear to illuminate our past, even casting light onto that which has become alien to our memories and that which is still familiar to us today. Bibliography Will O' The Wisp: Folk Tales and Legends of New Brunswick by Carole, Spray Wikipedia: Will-O-The-Wisp Wikipedia: Biolumiescent Fungi Today I Found Out: What causes Will-O-The-Wisps The Guardian: Fairytales much older than previously thought, says researchers Celtic Monsters- Omen's of Death