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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
128
That
they
are
said,
by
the
natives,
to
have
fallen
in
thunderstorms.
As
to
luminosity,
it
is
my
lamentable
acceptance
that
bodies
falling
through
this
earth's
atmosphere,
if
not
warmed
even,
often
fall
with
a
brilliant
light,
looking
like
flashes
of
lightning.
This
matter
seems
important:
we'll
take
it
up
later,
with
data.
In
Prussia,
two
stone
axes
were
found
in
the
trunks
of
trees,
one
under
the
bark.
(Blinkenberg,
Thunder
Weapons,
p.
100.)
The
finders
jumped
to
the
conclusion
that
the
axes
had
fallen
there.
Another
stone
ax--or
wedge-shaped
object
of
worked
stone--said
to
have
been
found
in
a
tree
that
had
been
struck
by
something
that
looked
like
lightning.
(Thunder
Weapons,
p.
71.)
The
finder
jumped
to
the
conclusion.
Story
told
by
Blinkenberg,
of
a
woman,
who
lived
near
Kulsbjaergene,
Sweden,
who
found
a
flint
near
an
old
willow--"near
her
house."
I
emphasize
"near
her
house"
because
that
means
familiar
ground.
The
willow
had
been
split
by
something.
She
jumped.
Cow
killed
by
lightning,
or
by
what
looked
like
lightning
(Isle
of
Sark,
near
Guernsey).
The
peasant
who
owned
the
cow
dug
up
the
ground
at
the
spot
and
found
a
small
greenstone
"ax."
Blinkenberg
says
that
he
jumped
to
the
conclusion
that
it
was
this
object
that
had
fallen
luminously,
killing
the
cow.
Reliquary,
1867-208:
A
flint
ax
found
by
a
farmer,
after
a
severe
storm--described
as
a
"fearful
storm"--by
a
signal
staff,
which
had
been
split
by
something.
I
should
say
that
nearness
to
a
signal
staff
may
be
considered
familiar
ground.
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