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that part of the Forest called Boldrewood, the man informs me this 

 week, Jack-o'-Lantern would be seen arising off the bogs about 

 eleven o'clock. When he and his companion first saw them there 

 were two ; they took them for two men each carrying a lantern. 

 The lights passed some twenty yards distant from them. They 

 kept their eyes on these strange apparitions, but not a single sound 

 passed through the wood. This man afterwards saw many of these 

 queer sights in other parts of the Forest." 



Here it is evident that the lights were more or less constant, so 

 cannot have been due to the ignition of phosphoretted hydrogen ; they 

 were evidently not Ghost Swifts ; but there seems to be nothing in 

 the account inconsistent with their being due to swarms of luminous 

 goats ; or they may have been caused by luminous birds. 



Another correspondent relates his experience in the island of 

 North Uist in the month of October, 1911, when 'flighting' for 

 duck in a large bog. "In appearance the Will-o'-the-Wisp 

 resembles the light of a lantern being waved to and fro, never still, 

 in sweeps of from 50 to 60 yards," 



This account apparently is closely akin to that of the luminous 

 owl. 



Another says " Having been brought up in the Fens I have seen 

 Jack-o'-Lantern jumping hundreds of nights, and can describe it 

 as a large bluey-green ball in appearance that bounds like a football 

 after a big kick." 



Here again explanation afforded by the swarms of luminous 

 gnats appears best to accord with the description given. 



Other replies were either too vague for proper examination or 

 merely urge the marsh gas theory as being correct, without however 

 giving details of actual observations. 



Thus, though not sufficiently numerous for general deductions 

 to be based upon them, these later accounts afford some confirmation 

 of theory of the occasional luminescence of dancing swarms of gnats, 

 but not one of them records any appearance to which our Ghost 

 Swift theory can be applied. Possibly this is due to the latter 

 being more commonly recognised nowadays for what it really is, in 

 other words that the superstition popularly denominated Will-o'- 

 the-Wisp has been more or less, as Dr. Snow suggests, exploded by 

 education. 



We have now considered the four principal phenomena that 

 have been claimed as giving rise to the popular legend of the Will- 

 o'-the-Wisp, but " as we have seen " each of them is distinct in itself 



