A STRANGE EXPERIENCE.
■ » WILL-O'-THE-WISP. The "Waikato Argus" records that laet Wednesday night Mr. H. Atkins, of Maungatautari, had tho unique experience of being intiniatel}* connected with an electrical phenomenon popularly known as Will-o'-the-wisp or jack-o-Lantern, the fatuus- or fool's fire of the ancients. While riding home during a heavy rainstorm the horse's head and portions of Mio rider became .illuminated with gloving phosphorescent light?. The light resembled the light.? of many glow-worm:., but was less concentrating, and presented a weird appearance as the beating rain caused Hie illuminated drops to fall and fade in the darkness. The display lasted vrhilo the distance of half a miln was covered, mid was at ouo time so clear that the animal's lioad and bridle were plainly visible, and Mr. Atkins estimates that the glow could have been seen nt a distance of 200 yards. The horse became excited and restive.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19111128.2.40
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1297, 28 November 1911, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
147A STRANGE EXPERIENCE. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1297, 28 November 1911, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in