ignis fatuus

“That is an ignis fatuus,” was my first thought; and I expected it would soon vanish.

The ignis fatuus was sometimes supposed to be the soul of an unbaptised child.

We are beginning to believe Magdala to be a fata morgana, an ignis fatuus, which gets more and more distant the nearer we approach it.

Never did a geographical entity seem so to play the ignis fatuus with the world as did the River.

Nor he, nor any of the brave Plantagenets ever came to Ireland, for they were pursuing an ignis fatuus in France, instead of attending to their own business at home.