If man didn’t have a wonderful power of imagination, we’d probably have no superstitions at all. Also, if people didn’t learn more and more about certain things that happen in nature, these superstitions would probably never die.

The will-o’-the-wisp has been the subject of many amazing superstitions for hundreds of years. There are many tales told of travelers who lost their way in swamps and marshes by following a blue flame that seemed to dance ahead of them. This was the will-o’-the-wisp, or jack-o’-lantern, and it was supposed to be an evil spirit that lured men to their death.