Who got that vocab?!
igAAnis fatAAuAAus /EEASgnEASs EfA¦tEuE™s/ [ig-nis fach-oo-uhs]
a€"noun, plural igAAnes fatAAuAAi /EEASgniz EfA¦tEuEaEAS/
1. Also called friar’s lantern, will-o’-the-wisp. a flitting phosphorescent light seen at night, chiefly over marshy ground, and believed to be due to spontaneous combustion of gas from decomposed organic matter.
2. something deluding or misleading. [LINK]
The will-o’-the-wisp, sometimes will-o’-wisp or ignis fatuus (modern Latin, from ignis ("fire") + fatuus ("foolish"), plural ignes fatui) refers to the ghostly lights sometimes seen at night or twilight a€" often over bogs. It looks like a flickering lamp, and is sometimes said to recede if approached. Much folklore surrounds the legend, but science has offered several potential explanations. [LINK]
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Posted: March 16th, 2008
at 8:27pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: weaponry,contemporary
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