who is WILLOW the WHISP ??

Question

is it a thing or being or both......

i know evil edna, fat faiy, but not WtheWhisp....aaaaarrrhgh

Answer 1

In the cartoon it was the talking puff of smoke.

The name comes from the phrase; "Will o' the wisp" meaning someone who was easily distracted.

Answer 2

The Will o' the Wisp is the most common name given to the mysterious lights that were said to lead travellers from the well-trodden paths into treacherous marshes. The tradition exists with slight variation throughout Britain, the lights often bearing a regional name.

There are various explanations for the Will o' the Wisps, the most general being that they are malevolent spirits either of the dead or non-human intelligence. They have a mischievous and often malevolent nature, luring unwary travellers into dangerous situations. Wirt Sikes in his book British Goblins alludes a common story about a Welsh Will o' the Wisp (Pwca); a peasant, who is travelling home late in the evening sees a bright light travelling before him, looking closer he sees that the light is a lantern held by a "dusky little figure" which he follows for several miles, suddenly he finds himself standing on the edge of a great chasm with a roaring torrent of water rushing below him. At that moment the lantern carrier leaps across the fissure, raises the light over its head and lets out a malicious laugh, after which it blows out the light leaving the unfortunate man far from home, standing in pitch darkness at the edge of a precipice. They were not always so dangerous, and there are tales told about the Will o' the Wisp being guardians of treasure, leading those brave enough to follow them to sure riches.

In many places the Will o' the Wisp were associated with spirits of the dead who could not enter either heaven or hell, malignantly wandering the earth leading foolish travellers astray. Katherine Briggs mentions the Shropshire 'Will the Smith' in her book A Dictionary of Fairies: St Peter allowed a wicked blacksmith named Will a second chance to live a wholesome life on earth, but he lived it in such evil that he was doomed to wander the earth in purgatory. The Devil allowed him one grace, a burning piece of pit coal to warm him on his desolate walk through the wild lands, which he uses to lead wanderers into the marshes. The lights were also seen as death omens, and when seen within graveyards they were known as corpse lights. These were said to light the path of a coming funeral - from the victims home to the graveyard - in the form of small flickering flames. In other tales the light were often said to appear in places where a tragedy was about to occur.


More mundane explanations for the Will o' the Wisp come in the form of marsh gasses - natural methane - formed from rotting vegetation. The gas was thought to sometimes ignite spontaneously forming standing flames over boggy ground. It has also been suggested that the little understood phenomena of ball lightning may have been the cause of sightings.

Some Regional Names
There are many names for what is essentially the same phenomenon, these are as follows:
Hertfordshire and East Anglia: The Hobby Lantern
Lancashire: Peg-a- Lantern
Cornwall: and Somerset: Joan the Wad
East Anglia: The Lantern Man
Somerset and Devon: Hinky Punk
Shropshire: Will the Smith
Worcestershire: Pinket
The West Country: Jacky Lantern, Jack a Lantern
Lowland Scotland: Spunkies
Wales: Pwca and the Ellylldan
Norfolk: Will o the Wikes
Warwickshire Gloucestershire: Hobbedy's Lantern
North Yorkshire, Northumberland: Jenny with the Lantern

Other names:
Corpse candles - related to graveyards and funeral processions.
Ignis Fatuus - the Latin name which means foolish fire.

Answer 3

Will o' the Wisp
The Will o' the Wisp is the most common name given to the mysterious lights that were said to lead travellers from the well-trodden paths into treacherous marshes. The tradition exists with slight variation throughout Britain, the lights often bearing a regional name.

Answer 4

Will o' the Wisp
will =short form of William
o=of
the = the
Wisp= whisps of foggy swamp mists that rise in the evening, sometimes with luminous gasses and elusive glows and fairy lights.
He is usually thought of as a ghost, mostly harmless, not malicious. but it will get you lost if you try to follow or catch up to it

Answer 5

Is he related to Willo the Wisp perhaps?

Answer 6

willo the wisp was kenneth williams as the narrator of the cartoon series.

what was that bloody catapillar's name though?

brian was in the magic roundabout.

was this another brian?

Answer 7

willo the wisp was kenneth williams go to www.willo.the.wisp.co.uk you will find everything you want to know there

Answer 8

willow the whisp is a tree branch........ haha