While refraction allows for phenomena such as rainbows, it may also produce peculiar optical phenomena, such as mirages and Fata Morgana.

He helped to create poetical atmosphere of Fata Morgana, Heart of Glass, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser and Nosferatu.

The band took its name from the Popol Vuh, a manuscript of Quiché Maya kingdom, after watching Herzog's Fata Morgana ( in which Lotte Eisner reads parts of the Popol Vuh ).

* Fata Morgana ( 1972 )

* Drehbücher I: Lebenszeichen, Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen, Fata Morgana ( Hanser 1977 )

Following his exile to Mexico in the late 1930s, Spanish Civil War activist and montage artist Joseph Renau compiled his acclaimed Fata Morgana USA: the American Way of Life, a book of photomontaged images highly critical of Americana and North American " consumer culture ".

Phenomena of atmospheric optics related to atmospheric ducting include the green flash, Fata Morgana, superior mirage, mock mirage of astronomical objects and the Novaya Zemlya effect.

Fata Morgana may refer to:

* Fata Morgana ( mirage ), an optical phenomenon

* Fata Morgana ( 1965 film ), a film by Vicente Aranda

* Fata Morgana ( 1972 film ), a film by Werner Herzog

* Fata Morgana ( 2007 film ), a film by Simon Groß

* Fata Morgana ( television program ), a Belgian game show

* " Fata Morgana " ( Sanctuary ), an episode of Sanctuary

* Fata Morgana, a 1904 novel by André Castaigne, illustrated by the author

* Fata Morgana, a 1975 poem by Nikos Kavvadias

* Fata Morgana, a 1977 crime novel by William Kotzwinkle

* Fata Morgana, a 1992 crime novel by Roy Jacobsen

* Fata Morgana, a 1999 science fiction novel by Leo Frankowski

* Fata Morgana, a novella by Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky

* Nico's Last Concert: Fata Morgana, a 2000 album

* Fata Morgana, a 1995 album by Omar Faruk Tekbilek

* Fata Morgana, a 1995 EP by Fata Morgana, a side project of Mortiis

* " Fata morgana ", a 1977 song by Mariza Koch ( poem of Nikos Kavvadias )

* " Fata morgana ", a 1982 song by Krypton from Formaţii Rock 7

* " Fata Morgana ", a 1985 song by Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung from Geld oder Leben!

* " Fata Morgana ", a 1986 song by Fates Warning from Awaken the Guardian

* " Fata Morgana ", a 1993 song by Dana International

* " Fata Morgana ", a 2007 song by El Guincho from Alegranza

* " Fata Morgana Polka-mazurka ", a 1868 polka by Johann Strauss II

Fata, although it became a feminine noun in the Romance languages, was originally the neuter plural (" the Fates ") of fatum, past participle of the verb fari to speak, hence " thing spoken, decision, decree " or " prophetic declaration, prediction ", hence " destiny, fate ".

In 1939, Breton collaborated with artist Wifredo Lam on the publication of Breton's poem " Fata Morgana ", which was illustrated by Lam.

Mirages can be categorized as " inferior " ( meaning lower ), " superior " ( meaning higher ) and " Fata Morgana ", one kind of superior mirage consisting of a series of unusually elaborate, vertically-stacked images, which form one rapidly-changing mirage.

In Greek mythology, the Moirai (, " apportioners ", Latinized as Moerae )— often known in English as the Fates — were the white-robed incarnations of destiny ( Roman equivalent: Parcae, euphemistically the " sparing ones ", or Fata ; also equivalent to the Germanic Norns ).

A market scene from " Fata Morgana ( Efteling ) | Fata Morgana ", a ride in Efteling.

It is interesting to note that in the lines, " the weary traveller sees In desert or prairie vast, Blue lakes, overhung with trees That a pleasant shadow cast ", because of the mention of blue lakes, it is clear that the author is actually describing not a Fata Morgana, but rather a common inferior or desert mirage.

In Marseille, Lam and Breton collaborated on the publication of Breton's poem Fata Morgana, which was illustrated by Lam.

Though the drawings he created in Marseille between 1940 and 1941 are known as the Fata Morgana suite, only about three inspired the illustrations for the poem.

The 1886 drawing shown here of a " Fata Morgana " in a desert might have been an imaginative illustration for the poem, but in reality no mirage ever looks like this.

* Fata Morgana, a 1998 EP by Dissidenten

The text was also used by German film director Werner Herzog as extensive narration for the first chapter of his movie Fata Morgana ( released 1972 ).

Marerijk is the home to the Fairy Tale Forest and the Fairies of the Droomvlucht, Anderrijk has some rides that are inspired by non-Western cultures ( e. g. Fata Morgana and Piraña ), while Reizenrijk has the Carnaval Festival ride, which travels through several different ' countries.