Editing Will-o'-the-wisp (section)

====Ireland====
In the late 1930s, schoolchildren across Ireland were tasked with the interviewing of older neighbours and relatives with regards to collecting local history and folklore as part of the [[Irish Folklore Commission]]'s ''[[Irish_Folklore_Commission#School's_Collection|Schools' Collection]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.duchas.ie/en/info/cbe|title=National Folklore Collection (NFC) and its collections|date = 2014-01-01|website=[[Dúchas]].ie |access-date=2025-04-26 }}</ref> Numerous sightings of the phenomenon were recorded as part of the project. One such child, James Curran, relayed information taken from his father about a sighting in [[Harristown, Naas South|Harristown]], [[County Kildare]]:
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My father told me that when he was about fourteen years of age, he was crossing the limekiln of Harristown and he saw a little red ball of fire rolling along in front of him. He ran after it, but he could not catch it as when he would run it would roll quicker, and quicker, and when he would stop, it would stop.
He followed it, all through Clarke's bottoms, across Major Mc Gees land and on to the railway and then it disappeared. He did not know what it was, but his father told him it was Will o' the Wisp.<ref name = duchas_cat>{{Cite journal |last= Curran |first=James | title= Will o' the Wisp |url=https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5260470/5256180?HighlightText=%22harristown%22&Route=stories&SearchLanguage=ga |date= 1938-02-02|access-date=27 April 2025| journal= [[Irish_Folklore_Commission#School's_Collection|The Schools' Collection 1937-1939]] ([[Irish Folklore Commission|The Irish Folklore Commission]])|volume=0776C |pages=12_037}}</ref>
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