People would follow these lights thinking they were little fairies, and basically drown or get sucked down into the bogs. “They were said to lead you to treasure or doom-to change your fate-but they’re an actual phenomenon of swamp and bog gas seeping up through the earth and interacting with the natural resources to create the blue flames. “The will o’ the wisps are in a lot of Scottish folktales,” says “Brave” director Mark Andrews. Forming a path that dares her to follow, the lights lead Merida to a mysterious location that holds the power to change her destiny-just not in the way she imagines. In “Brave,” Merida spies tiny blue lights after escaping into the forest in search of a change of fate. Yet no matter how long or how fervently they follow, they never quite touch the beautiful beacons whose flickering lights eventually fade and disappear… leaving the inquisitors, the dreamers and the treasure seekers lost… and alone. It is said-though by whom is a bit of a mystery-that on certain days for certain travelers in certain parts of the world, little lights dance on the horizon, whispering tempting invitations… pledging the answers to lifelong questions, the realization of dreams, a key to secret treasures-a change of fate.Ĭharmed and curious, unsuspecting travelers follow the floating lights, mesmerized by their whispers, their promises. Travelers-particularly those who venture out after sunset on unfamiliar pathways-beware of the will o’ the wisps. Have you seen BRAVE yet? If you did, you may have wonderdered about those mythical little blue creatures called Wisps, that guided Merida throughout the movie.
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