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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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As
to
"thunderstones"
not
said
to
have
fallen
luminously,
and
not
said
to
have
been
found
sticking
in
trees,
we
are
told
by
faithful
hypnotics
that
astonished
rustics
come
upon
prehistoric
axes
that
have
been
washed
into
sight
by
rains,
and
jump
to
the
conclusion
that
the
things
have
fallen
from
the
sky.
But
simple
rustics
come
upon
many
prehistoric
things:
scrapers,
pottery,
knives,
hammers.
We
have
no
record
of
rusticity
coming
upon
old
pottery
after
a
rain,
reporting
the
fall
of
a
bowl
from
the
sky.
Just
now,
my
own
acceptance
is
that
wedge-shaped
stone
objects,
formed
by
means
similar
to
human
workmanship,
have
often
fallen
from
the
sky.
Maybe
there
are
messages
upon
them.
My
acceptance
is
that
they
have
been
called
"axes"
to
discredit
them:
or
the
more
familiar
a
term,
the
higher
the
incongruity
with
vague
concepts
of
the
vast,
remote,
tremendous,
unknown.
In
Notes
and
Queries,
2-8-92,
a
writer
says
that
he
had
a
"thunderstone,"
which
he
had
brought
from
Jamaica.
The
description
is
of
a
wedge-shaped
object;
not
of
an
ax:
"It
shows
no
mark
of
having
been
attached
to
a
handle."
Of
ten
"thunderstones,"
figured
upon
different
pages
in
Blinkenberg's
book,
nine
show
no
sign
of
ever
having
been
attached
to
a
handle:
one
is
perforated.
But
in
a
report
by
Dr.
C.
Leemans,
Director
of
the
Leyden
Museum
of
Antiquities,
objects,
said
by
the
Japanese
to
have
fallen
from
the
sky,
are
alluded
to
throughout
as
"wedges."
In
the
Archaeologic
Journal,
11-118,
in
a
paper
upon
the
"thunderstones"
of
Java,
the
objects
are
called
"wedges"
and
not
"axes."
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