Talk:Foxfire
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[edit] Image
Can any photographers possible supply an image of this? --NEMT 14:05, 7 October 2006 (UTC) I have a better picture available; if I submit it, this'll be my first Wikipedia edit. I take it I need to upload it to wikimedia and then link it into the page? The picture lives at http://picasaweb.google.com/entropius/RandomPicturesOfStuff/photo#5093536928425939586, and the same thing photographed with flash is at http://picasaweb.google.com/entropius/RandomPicturesOfStuff/photo#5093538302815474322. Would both of these pictures be useful for the article, showing the object under external light and then only its glow? --72.211.155.160 07:26, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
- An image was uploaded, which was replaced by another image, which was removed after 7 days due to the lack of a license. Then, a different image was added. I've re-added the first image also, so there are now two images. I think these two should be enough, so I've now removed the image request tag. -kotra (talk) 09:00, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Firefox
Why is there a link to Firefox, in the See Also section? Miuq (talk) 02:26, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Does not explain where the term itself comes from
Can anybody explain the origin for the word itself? I'm especially curious about the "Fox" part.
- Just a guess, but I'd bet it has to do with the Japanese legend of the Kitsune who could create blue or green fire from their paws... This was called foxfire. I'd be willing to bet that the fungus, in the black night, looked a lot like that. 65.191.181.113 (talk) 15:39, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
- Not likely, since the term has been around a lot longer than regular English contact with Japan. According to [1], it is actually a corruption of faux-fire, where faux is French for "false" or "fake." That seems a lot more likely, however that site doesn't provide any refs either ... -- 202.63.39.58 (talk) 16:44, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
- I found something here, relating foxfire to "faux fire", or fire/light without heat, but I'm not sure if it is a reliable source.Sesamehoneytart (talk) 02:10, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Some legends about foxfire
I removed this link because the article it refers to contains no legends, merely asserts that they exist without any supporting citations. The Lesser Merlin (talk) 08:07, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
