- Thu, 00:30: “Peasants believed in meteorites. Scientists excluded meteorites. Peasants believe in “thunderstones.”…” http://tumblr.com/xfs1xx9uel
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Posted on March 31, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Peasants believed in meteorites
Posted on March 31, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Peasants believed in meteorites.
Scientists excluded meteorites.
Peasants believe in “thunderstones.”
Scientists exclude “thunderstones.”
It is useless to argue that peasants are out in the fields, and that scientists are shut up in laboratories and lecture rooms. We cannot take for a real base that, as to phenomena with which they are more familiar, peasants are more likely to be right than are scientists: a host of biologic and meteorologic fallacies of peasants rises against us.
Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 101-102 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
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Posted on March 30, 2011 · Leave a Comment
- Wed, 00:31: Like a flock of sheep – According to the London Times of April 7, 1860, blocks of ice fell in a snowstorm in… http://tumblr.com/xfs1xii8zf
Like a flock of sheep
Posted on March 30, 2011 · Leave a Comment
According to the London Times of April 7, 1860, blocks of ice fell in a snowstorm in Upper Wasdale on March 16, 1860. The blocks were so large that “at a distance they looked like a flock of sheep.”
–Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 185 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
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Posted on March 29, 2011 · Leave a Comment
- Tue, 00:31: Some peculiar tension in the cooling – A pyramidal stone fell at Segowolee, India, on March 6, 1853…. http://tumblr.com/xfs1x41366
- Tue, 07:47: Received my copy of Hunter: the Vigil Witchfinders yesterday. Looking forward to the next #nWoD session after our near death last time.
