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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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Showers
of
blood.
Showers
of
blood.
Showers
of
blood.
Whatever
it
may
have
been,
something
like
red-brick
dust,
or
a
red
substance
in
a
dried
state,
fell
at
Piedmont,
Italy,
Oct.
27,
1814
(Electric
Magazine,
68-437).
A
red
powder
fell,
in
Switzerland,
winter
of
1867
(Pop.
Sci.
Rev.,
10-112)--
That
something,
far
from
this
earth,
had
bled--super-dragon
that
had
rammed
a
comet--
Or
that
there
are
oceans
of
blood
somewhere
in
the
sky--substance
that
dries,
and
falls
in
a
powder--wafts
for
ages
in
powdered
form--that
there
is
a
vast
area
that
will
some
day
be
known
to
aviators
as
the
Desert
of
Blood.
We
attempt
little
of
super-topography,
at
present,
but
Ocean
of
Blood,
or
Desert
of
Blood--or
both--Italy
is
nearest
to
it--or
to
them.
I
suspect
that
there
were
corpuscles
in
the
substance
that
fell
in
Switzerland,
but
all
that
could
be
published
in
1867
was
that
in
this
substance
there
was
a
high
proportion
of
"variously
shaped
organic
matter."
At
Giessen,
Germany,
in
1821,
according
to
the
Report
of
the
British
Association,
5-2,
fell
a
rain
of
a
peach-red
color.
In
this
rain
were
flakes
of
a
hyacinthine
tint.
It
is
said
that
this
substance
was
organic:
we
are
told
that
it
was
pyrrhine.
But
distinctly
enough,
we
are
told
of
one
red
rain
that
it
was
of
corpuscular
composition--red
snow,
rather.
It
fell,
March
12,
1876,
near
the
Crystal
Palace,
London
(Year
Book
of
Facts,
1876-89;
Nature,
13-414).
As
to
the
"red
snow"
of
polar
and
mountainous
regions,
we
have
no
opposition,
because
that
"snow"
has
never
been
seen
to
fall
from
the
sky:
it
is
a
growth
of
micro-organisms,
or
of
a
"protococcus,"
that
spreads
over
snow
that
is
on
the
ground.
This
time
nothing
is
said
of
"sand
from
the
Sahara."
It
is
said
of
the
red
matter
that
fell
in
London,
March
12,
1876,
that
it
was
composed
of
corpuscles--
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