The Santelmo (St. Elmo's Fire) is a spirit in the Philippine folktales which appears as a mysterious fireball that comes from the middle of nowhere and rotates or dances in the air.
The term santelmo is the shortened form of the Tagalog words "Apoy ni San Elmo "-"St. Elmo's Fire".
St. Elmo's Fire has long served as an omen of heavenly intervention to sailors.
The ancient Greeks termed a single jet of the fire, Helena, and a double jet, Castor and Pollux....
It has also been known by the names St. Nicholas and St. Hermes, corpusante and Corpus Santos....
The name of St. Elmo is attributed to an Italian derivation of Sant 'Ermo or St. Erasmus (circa 300), the patron saint of the early Mediterranean sailors challenging the powers of storm and sea in small sailing vessels....
St. Elmo's Fire have ranged from a ghostly dancing flame to natural fireworks.
It usually is of a blue or bluish-white colour attached to fixed, grounded conductors and has a lifetime of minutes.
These latter properties prove the legendary/spiritual presence.
If a person is close enough to St. Elmo's Fire, he or she can hear it buzz or hiss sometimes.
Because the corona discharge is simply glowing plasma, rather than an actual fire, it will not cause objects around it to catch fire, and sometimes the light can be coaxed into doing tricks.
Airline pilots, for example, have written about playing with it when it gathers outside their windows, trailing their fingers across the windshield to attract the plasma.
The biblical burning bush that was not consumed may have been displaying one form of St. Elmo's Fire....
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