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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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Fall
of
great
numbers
of
larvae
of
beetles,
near
Mortagne,
France,
May,
1858.
The
larvae
were
inanimate
as
if
with
cold.
(Annales
Societe
Entomologique
de
France,
1858.)
Trans.
Ent.
Soc.
of
London,
1871-183,
records
"snowing
of
larvae,"
in
Silesia,
1806;
"appearance
of
many
larvae
on
the
snow,"
in
Saxony,
1811;
"larvae
found
alive
on
the
snow,"
1828;
larvae
and
snow
which
"fell
together,"
in
the
Eifel,
Jan.
30,
1847;
"fall
of
insects,"
Jan.
24,
1849,
in
Lithuania;
occurrence
of
larvae
estimated
at
300,000
on
the
snow
in
Switzerland,
in
1856.
The
compiler
says
that
most
of
these
larvae
live
underground,
or
at
the
roots
of
trees;
that
whirlwinds
uproot
trees,
and
carry
away
the
larvae--conceiving
of
them
as
not
held
in
masses
of
frozen
earth--all
as
neatly
detachable
as
currants
in
something.
In
the
Revue
et
Magasin
de
Zoologie,
1849-72,
there
is
an
account
of
the
fall
in
Lithuania,
Jan.
24,
1849--that
black
larvae
had
fallen
in
enormous
numbers.
Larvae
thought
to
have
been
of
beetles,
but
described
as
"caterpillars,"
not
seen
to
fall,
but
found
crawling
on
the
snow,
after
a
snowstorm,
at
Warsaw,
Jan.
20,
1850.
(All
the
Year
Round,
8-253.)
Flammarion
(The
Atmosphere,
p.
414)
tells
of
a
fall
of
larvae
that
occurred
Jan.
30,
1869,
in
a
snowstorm,
in
Upper
Savoy:
"They
could
not
have
been
hatched
in
the
neighborhood,
for,
during
the
days
preceding,
the
temperature
had
been
very
low";
said
to
have
been
of
a
species
common
in
the
south
of
France.
In
La
Science
Pour
Tous,
14-183,
it
is
said
that
with
these
larvae
there
were
developed
insects.
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