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

===Synonyms===
The names ''will-o'-the-wisp'' and ''jack-o'-lantern'' are used in [[origin myth|etiological folk-tales]], recorded in many variant forms in [[Ireland]], [[Scotland]], [[England]], [[Wales]], [[Appalachia]], and [[Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/willowisp.html|title=Will-o'-the-Wisp, Jack-o'-Lantern|last=Ashliman|first=D.|date=January 19, 2019|website=University of Pittsburgh|access-date=October 23, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Mystical Mountains|last=Jackson|first=Darla|date=September 3, 2015|pages=109–110}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nlunexplained.ca/2016/09/jack-lantern-in-shoe-cove-bight-will-o.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170103161228/http://www.nlunexplained.ca/2016/09/jack-lantern-in-shoe-cove-bight-will-o.html|archive-date=2017-01-03|title=Jack the Lantern in Shoe Cove Bight|last=Jarvis|first=Dale|website=www.nlunexplained.ca|access-date=October 23, 2019}}</ref>

Folk belief attributes the phenomenon explicitly in the term ''[[Hob (folklore)|hob]] lantern'' or ''hobby lantern''<ref name="wright1914"/> (var. 'Hob and his Lantern',<ref name="allies1846"/> 'hob-and-lanthorns").{{sfnp|Denham|1895|loc='''2''': 78}}{{Refn|group="lower-alpha"|And "Hoberdy's Lantern", "Hobany's Lantern" "Hob and his Lantern"<ref name="allies1846"/> probably corrupted from "Hob and his Lantern" accord. Kittredge, 440, n3.}} In her book ''A Dictionary of Fairies,'' [[Katharine Mary Briggs|K. M. Briggs]] provides an extensive list of other names for the same phenomenon, though the place where they are observed (graveyard, bogs, etc.) influences the naming considerably. When observed in graveyards, it is known as a ''ghost candle'' or ''corpse candle''.<ref name="odonnell1955"/><ref>{{harvp|Denham|1895|loc='''2''': 79}}: "corpse lights or candles"</ref>