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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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Now,
I
can't
say
that
nostoc
is
always
greenish,
any
more
than
I
can
say
that
blackbirds
are
always
black,
having
seen
a
white
one:
we
shall
quote
a
scientist
who
knew
of
flesh-colored
nostoc,
when
so
to
know
was
convenient.
When
we
come
to
reported
falls
of
gelatinous
substances,
I'd
like
it
to
be
noticed
how
often
they
are
described
as
whitish
or
grayish.
In
looking
up
the
subject,
myself,
I
have
read
only
of
greenish
nostoc.
Said
to
be
greenish,
in
Webster's
Dictionary--said
to
be
"blue-green"
in
the
New
International
Encyclopedia--"from
bright
green
to
olive-green"
(Science
Gossip,
10-114);
"green"
(Science
Gossip,
7-260);
"greenish"
(Notes
and
Queries,
1-11-219).
It
would
seem
acceptable
that,
if
many
reports
of
white
birds
should
occur,
the
birds
are
not
blackbirds,
even
though
there
have
been
white
blackbirds.
Or
that,
if
often
reported,
grayish
or
whitish
gelatinous
substance
is
not
nostoc,
and
is
not
spawn
if
occurring
in
times
unseasonable
for
spawn.
"The
Kentucky
Phenomenon."
So
it
was
called,
in
its
day,
and
now
we
have
an
occurrence
that
attracted
a
great
deal
of
attention
in
its
own
time.
Usually
these
things
of
the
accursed
have
been
hushed
up
or
disregarded--suppressed
like
the
seven
black
rains
of
Slains--but,
upon
March
3,
1876,
something
occurred,
in
Bath
County,
Kentucky,
that
brought
many
newspaper
correspondents
to
the
scene.
The
substance
that
looked
like
beef
that
fell
from
the
sky.
Upon
March
3,
1876,
at
Olympian
Springs,
Bath
County,
Kentucky,
flakes
of
a
substance
that
looked
like
beef
fell
from
the
sky--"from
a
clear
sky."
We'd
like
to
emphasize
that
it
was
said
that
nothing
but
this
falling
substance
was
visible
in
the
sky.
It
fell
in
flakes
of
various
sizes;
some
two
inches
square,
one,
three
or
four
inches
square.
The
flake-formation
is
interesting:
later
we
shall
think
of
it
as
signifying
pressure--somewhere.
It
was
a
thick
shower,
on
the
ground,
on
trees,
on
fences,
but
it
was
narrowly
localized:
or
upon
a
strip
of
land
about
100
yards
long
and
about
50
yards
wide.
For
the
first
account,
see
the
Scientific
American,
34-197,
and
the
New
York
Times,
March
10,
1876.
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