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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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Upon
the
Witch's
Stone,
near
Ratho,
Scotland,
there
are
twenty-four
cups,
varying
in
size
from
one
and
a
half
to
three
inches
in
diameter,
arranged
in
approximately
straight
lines.
Locally
it
is
explained
that
these
are
tracks
of
dogs'
feet
(Proc.
Soc.
Antiq.
Scotland,
2-4-79).
Similar
marks
are
scattered
bewilderingly
all
around
the
Witch's
Stone--like
a
frenzy
of
telegraphing,
or
like
messages
repeating
and
repeating,
trying
to
localize
differently.
In
Inverness-shire,
cup
marks
are
called
"fairies'
footmarks."
At
Valna's
church,
Norway,
and
St.
Peter's,
Ambleteuse,
there
are
such
marks,
said
to
be
horses'
hoofprints.
The
rocks
of
Clare,
Ireland,
are
marked
with
prints
supposed
to
have
been
made
by
a
mythical
cow
(Folklore,
21-184).
We
now
have
such
a
ghost
of
a
thing
that
I'd
not
like
to
be
interpreted
as
offering
it
as
a
datum:
it
simply
illustrates
what
I
mean
by
the
notion
of
symbols,
like
cups,
or
like
footprints,
which,
if
like
those
of
horses
or
cows,
are
the
reverse
of,
or
the
negatives
of,
cups--of
symbols
that
are
regularly
received
somewhere
upon
this
earth--steep,
conical
hill,
somewhere,
I
think--but
that
have
often
alighted
in
wrong
places--considerably
to
the
mystification
of
persons
waking
up
some
morning
to
find
them
upon
formerly
blank
spaces.
An
ancient
record--still
worse,
an
ancient
Chinese
record--of
a
courtyard
of
a
palace--dwellers
of
the
palace
waking
up
one
morning,
finding
the
courtyard
marked
with
tracks
like
the
footprints
of
an
ox--supposed
that
the
devil
did
it.
(Notes
and
Queries,
9-6-225.)
16.
Angels.
Hordes
upon
hordes
of
them.
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