Bestiarum Vocabulum: Will-o’-the-Wisp

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Lita Burke

March 12, 2015

The Bestiarum Vocabulum is the wizard’s encyclopedia of faerie beasties and mundane crossovers living in the lake and forest near Lita’s castle.

will-o’-the-wisp [wil ə ðə ˈwisp] noun, c.1660; means “Will of the wisp” from the masculine proper name William + wisp, a bundle of straw used as a torch; also will-o-wisp, foolish fire, chir batti, hinkypunk, pixy-light, corpse light.

Denizen of the Clockpunk Wizard world.
A malicious sentient magical creature that lives in fens and marshes. It consolidates the rotting magic from decaying plant and animal matter, and burns the fouled magic with a weak light. It craves living flesh, and a group of will-o’-the-wisps can strip a living animal to the bone within minutes. Wizards and sorceresses can counter a will-o’-the-wisp’s appetite by giving it a small metal object soaked with human magic.
Personages: The hungry sisters in the Murphy (“Wrong”) Swamp on Hurt Isle in Ephraim’s Curious Device.
See “Will o’ the Wisp: Swamp Siren (Part 1)” and “Will o’ the Wisp: Swamp Siren (Part 2)”

5 responses to “Bestiarum Vocabulum: Will-o’-the-Wisp”

coldhandboyack

March 12, 2015

Reblogged this on Entertaining Stories and commented:
I just can’t help but re-blog this, for fairly obvious reasons.

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1. Lita Burke
  
  March 13, 2015
  
  Thanks so much for the re-blog.
  
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soireadthisbooktoday

March 12, 2015

And when I read this on Entertaining Stories, I headed over here and now have a beautiful new site to follow!

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1. Lita Burke
  
  March 13, 2015
  
  Thanks so much for stopping by and taking a look around. Appreciate the kind words. Go ahead and enjoy yourself–there are SO many things to see here!
  
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    March 13, 2015
    
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