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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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That
these
"migrations"--if
such
can
be
our
acceptance--have
occurred
at
a
time
of
hibernation
and
burial
far
in
the
ground
of
larvae
in
the
northern
latitudes
of
this
earth;
that
there
is
significance
in
recurrence
of
these
falls
in
the
last
of
January--or
that
we
have
the
square
of
an
incredibility
in
such
a
notion
as
that
of
selection
of
larvae
by
whirlwinds,
compounded
with
selection
of
the
last
of
January.
I
accept
that
there
are
"snow
worms"
upon
this
earth--whatever
their
origin
may
have
been.
In
the
Proc.
Acad.
Nat.
Sci.
of
Philadelphia,
1899-125,
there
is
a
description
of
yellow
worms
and
black
worms
that
have
been
found
together
on
glaciers
in
Alaska.
Almost
positively
were
there
no
other
forms
of
insect-life
upon
these
glaciers,
and
there
was
no
vegetation
to
support
insect-life,
except
microscopic
organisms.
Nevertheless
the
description
of
this
probably
polymorphic
species
fits
a
description
of
larvae
said
to
have
fallen
in
Switzerland,
and
less
definitely
fits
another
description.
There
is
no
opposition
here,
if
our
data
of
falls
are
clear.
Frogs
of
every-day
ponds
look
like
frogs
said
to
have
fallen
from
the
sky--except
the
whitish
frogs
of
Birmingham.
However,
all
falls
of
larvae
have
not
positively
occurred
in
the
last
of
January:
London
Times,
April
14,
1837:
That,
in
the
parish
of
Bramford
Speke,
Devonshire,
a
large
number
of
black
worms,
about
three-quarters
of
an
inch
in
length,
had
fallen
in
a
snowstorm.
In
Timb's
Year
Book,
1877-26,
it
is
said
that,
in
the
winter
of
1876,
at
Christiania,
Norway,
worms
were
found
crawling
upon
the
ground.
The
occurrence
is
considered
a
great
mystery,
because
the
worms
could
not
have
come
up
from
the
ground,
inasmuch
as
the
ground
was
frozen
at
the
time,
and
because
they
were
reported
from
other
places,
also,
in
Norway.
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