Will-o'-the-wisp (disambiguation)

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

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

Arts and entertainment

Characters

• Will o' the Wisp (comics), a Marvel comic book supervillain physicist
• Will-o'-wisp (Dungeons & Dragons), a malevolent entity in Dungeons & Dragons
• Will o' the wisps, fictional characters in the 2012 animated film Brave

Music

• "Song Of The Will-o'-the-Wisp" (Canción del fuego fatuo), from El amor brujo , a ballet composed in 1914–15 by Manuel de Falla to a libretto by Gregorio Martínez Sierra
  • Recorded by Miles Davis on the 1960 album Sketches of Spain
• 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 (Claw Boys Claw album), a 1997 album by Claw Boys Claw
• Will o' the Wisp, a song from Opeth's 2016 album Sorceress
• "Will O' The Wisp", from by Blackmore's Night from the 2015 album All Our Yesterdays
• "Will-o-the-wisp", from the Pet Shop Boys' 2020 album Hotspot

Other arts and entertainment

• Peggy, the Will O' the Wisp , a 1917 film
• Will-o'-the-Wisp (film), a 2022 Portuguese film
• Will O' the Wisp (novel), a 1931 novel by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
• "Will o' the Wisp", a 1999 episode of children's television show So Weird
• Willo the Wisp , a British cartoon series originally produced in 1981
• Ori and the Will of the Wisps , a 2020 video game and sequel to Ori and the Blind Forest
• The Will-O'-The-Wisp, a 1947 novel by Baroness Orczy

People

• Willie Fleming (born 1939), professional Canadian football player nicknamed "Will o' the Wisp"
• Jeff Hardy (born 1977), American professional wrestler who had the ring name "Willow the Whisp"
• Willie Pep (1922–2006), American boxer nicknamed "Will o' the Wisps"

Other uses

• Ignis Fatuus, a haunted ship attraction at Morey's Piers
• SS Will-o'-Wisp a Confederate blockade running steamer
• Will-o'-the-wisp, a variation of Spiderette solitaire game

See also

• Irrlicht (disambiguation), the German name for will-o'-the-wisp