The Ghostly Glow of St. Elmo's Fire

Adapted from Wikimedia Commons "Everything is in flames, -- the sky with lightning, -- the water with luminous particles, and even the very masts are pointed with a blue flame." -- Charles Darwin, 1832 "... sometime I'ld divide,And burn in many places; on the topmast,The yards and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly,Then meet and join." -- William Shakespeare, The Tempest  "About, about, in reel and rout, The death fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green and blue and...