Will o' the Wisp / Irrlicht / Ignis Fatuus
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Wed Apr 29, 2015 12:10 pmby Ruggero M.
I'm researching about this natural physichal/chemical phenomenon, which is known to occur where organic material undergoes natural decomposition.
The phenomenon is rare, is seen only in the dark (which means only night time) and is observed mainly in marshes, swamps, cemeteries (in the past) or wherever some decaying material is present under ground or water.
If you have experience or recent observation of this light phenomenon, which is normally described as a transient "cold flame", please contact me.
I'm collecting reports about this fact, and any recent sighting will be very helpful for my research.
Re: Will o' the Wisp / Irrlicht / Ignis Fatuus
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Wed Apr 29, 2015 5:09 pmby Gerald Ochsenhofer
Maybe you can contact Mark Vornhusen, i came across this page he wrote years ago:
http://old.meteoros.de/irrlicht/irrlichte.htmAs far as the page has been taken "offline" quite some time ago, i'm not sure if the contact adress changed meanwhile.
PS: I'm well aware that the picture is just a placeholder
Re: Will o' the Wisp / Irrlicht / Ignis Fatuus
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Wed Apr 29, 2015 7:02 pmby Ruggero M.
Gerald Ochsenhofer wrote:Maybe you can contact Mark Vornhusen, i came across this page he wrote years ago:
http://old.meteoros.de/irrlicht/irrlichte.htmAs far as the page has been taken "offline" quite some time ago, i'm not sure if the contact adress changed meanwhile.
PS: I'm well aware that the picture is just a placeholder
Thanks, I've written now to him, but I've probably done the same thing time ago, because I already knew this page...
I've a good amount of publications about this matter, but the last reports obtained from living witnesses date back some years.
This phenomenon was rare in the past, and now seems to be almost disappeared!
Re: Will o' the Wisp / Irrlicht / Ignis Fatuus
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Thu Apr 30, 2015 11:13 amby Ruggero M.
For interested people, a well made (but somehow enigmatic in my opinion, because it lacks the evidence of the proofs!) scientific article about Ignis Fatuus:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar ... 2814016425Sorry, I'm no longer able to find the whole article...
Re: Will o' the Wisp / Irrlicht / Ignis Fatuus
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Sat May 02, 2015 2:07 pmby Ruggero M.
Some bibliography
http://inamidst.com/lights/wisp/ and a particular picture:
- Will o' the wisp and snake by Hermann Hendrich
- Will-o-the-wisp_and_snake_by_Hermann_Hendrich_1823.jpg (40.6 KiB) Viewed 6422 times
The snake painted resembles a "Kreuzotter"...
Re: Will o' the Wisp / Irrlicht / Ignis Fatuus
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Sat May 02, 2015 8:35 pmby Ruggero M.
Jeroen Speybroeck wrote:Ruggero Morimando wrote:For interested people, a well made (but somehow enigmatic in my opinion, because it lacks the evidence of the proofs!) scientific article about Ignis Fatuus:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar ... 2814016425Sorry, I'm no longer able to find the whole article...
? It's open access.
I think so! I could download it!
Re: Will o' the Wisp / Irrlicht / Ignis Fatuus
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Sun May 03, 2015 9:44 amby Ruggero M.
Here is it:
http://ac.els-cdn.com/S1877042814016425 ... 3decf04fa1Very well done analysis of the soil contents, but my question is: who actually observed the unusual "luminous cloud"? Which are the proofs of the actual existence of this "cloud"? There are no pictures, no footages, nothing more then vague reports...
And a luminous cloud is something very different from the usual appearance of a typical Ignis Fatuus.
Anyway interesting and at least for me fascinating!
