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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
29
Comptes
Rendus,
56-972:
M.
Bouis
says
of
a
substance,
reddish
varying
to
yellowish,
that
fell
enormously
and
successively,
or
upon
April
30,
May
1
and
May
2,
in
France
and
Spain,
that
it
carbonized
and
spread
the
odor
of
charred
animal
matter--that
it
was
not
pollen--that
in
alcohol
it
left
a
residue
of
resinous
matter.
Hundreds
of
thousands
of
tons
of
this
matter
must
have
fallen.
"Odor
of
charred
animal
matter."
Or
an
aerial
battle
that
occurred
in
inter-planetary
space
several
hundred
years
ago--effect
of
time
in
making
diverse
remains
uniform
in
appearance--
It's
all
very
absurd
because,
even
though
we
are
told
of
a
prodigious
quantity
of
animal
matter
that
fell
from
the
sky--three
days--France
and
Spain--we're
not
ready
yet:
that's
all.
M.
Bouis
says
that
this
substance
was
not
pollen;
the
vastness
of
the
fall
makes
acceptable
that
it
was
not
pollen;
still,
the
resinous
residue
does
suggest
pollen
of
pine
trees.
We
shall
hear
a
great
deal
of
a
substance
with
a
resinous
residue
that
has
fallen
from
the
sky:
finally
we
shall
divorce
it
from
all
suggestion
of
pollen.
Blackwood's
Magazine,
3-338:
A
yellow
powder
that
fell
at
Gerace,
Calabria,
March
14,
1813.
Some
of
this
substance
was
collected
by
Sig.
Simenini,
Professor
of
Chemistry,
at
Naples.
It
had
an
earthy,
insipid
taste,
and
is
described
as
"unctuous."
When
heated,
this
matter
turned
brown,
then
black,
then
red.
According
to
the
Annals
of
Philosophy,
11-466,
one
of
the
components
was
a
greenish-yellow
substance,
which,
when
dried,
was
found
to
be
resinous.
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