ignis fatuus
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The ignis fatuus is almost extinct; so much so that Jack-o’-the-Lantern has died out of the village folklore.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies
Character, the vital principle of the individual, is the ignis fatuus of the mechanical biographer.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various
Never did a geographical entity seem so to play the ignis fatuus with the world as did the River.
From The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by William Denison Lyman
Silent and alone, she saw the signal-light of the steamer moving like an ignis fatuus along the empurpled bosom of the water—at length suddenly disappearing behind the battlements of the Fort.
From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid
"If we pursue the ignis fatuus of secular education in a pagan land, destitute of other light," quoting Sir Herbert again, "then we English will lose India without those Indians gaining any future."
From Religion and the War by Various
