Fatty fires. They are talked about in many cultures, countries and corners of the world.They are, in general, small and flame-like lights that arise in the most unexpected scenarios.Floating fires blue, yellow and red.
But where do you usually see them? What are these curious scenarios in which they say so-called fatuous fires arise? In cemeteries and in humid places, near rivers or swamps and always at dawn or dusk.
Why are they? Are they perhaps chemical reactions of some compounds in decomposition , such as dead animals? Let's look at the subject in a little more detail, inviting you as always to give us your opinions and experiences.
What are the fiery fires?
Scientists seem to be clear.Fatty fires (ignis fatuus) are actually something normal and explainable.It would basically be about sudden inflammations caused by phosphorus.The fact that they make their appearance in cemeteries or swamps is precisely because in these areas are abundant substances in full decomposition process .
Dead people or animals, also accumulation of vegetables such as swamps, emanate chemical compounds that, at one time given, they can cause these slight and sudden fizz-like effervescences.Small fires of violet or bluish colors that are seen especially after sunset or even at dawn.We must remember that when a body decomposes emanates methane gases, what sum two to the oxidation of phosphine can possibly cause the occasional «ignition».
Some people also think that, instead of being caused by decomposing matter, the luminescences could be organisms like the fungus Armillaria mellea or even groups of fireflies slightly hidden by the evening fog.
However, the scientific explanation does not prevent years and years of traditions and legends from being they disappear just like that, like the smoke that disappears through an open window.Not at all.There are many stories woven from the dawn of time around the figure of the fiery fires and it is always worth taking them into account.
Legends about fat fires
It is also said that when you see the fat fires in the distance, they disappear as you get closer.They are those lights that appear in the forests, on the river banks and in the cemeteries, phenomena that do not suggest anything good .On the contrary, in most cultures they have an evil essence.
Popular culture Gaelic and Slavic speaks of the "will-o'-the-wisp", evil spirits of the deceased who seek to cause us accidents or make us lose through the forests.It is also said that they can be spirits of unbaptized children or born dead , which advance even between heaven and hell.
In India , the Darjeelin is always associated with the fiery fires; it is a kind of elves that inhabit the earth and that occasionally emerge wrapped in its phosphorescent light.On the other hand, in the Asian country these phenomena have a lot of significance, it is the called "hitodama" that would come to be translated as "human soul" , a very important concept for the Japanese.Hydotama would become the soul of people who have just died , presences that emerge from cemeteries wrapped in blue or white flames being briefly visible to us, the frightened mortals.
And now tell us have you ever witnessed a fat fire? What explanation do have in your country ? Tell us about them.Meanwhile, we leave you with another interesting, slightly similar phenomenon.Do you know what the Orbs are?
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