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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
55
Comptes
Rendus,
23-542:
That,
in
Wilna,
Lithuania,
April
4,
1846,
in
a
rainstorm,
fell
nut-sized
masses
of
a
substance
that
is
described
as
both
resinous
and
gelatinous.
It
was
odorless
until
burned:
then
it
spread
a
very
pronounced
sweetish
odor.
It
is
described
as
like
gelatine,
but
much
firmer:
but,
having
been
in
water
24
hours,
it
swelled
out,
and
looked
altogether
gelatinous--
It
was
grayish.
We
are
told
that,
in
1841
and
1846,
a
similar
substance
had
fallen
in
Asia
Minor.
In
Notes
and
Queries,
8-6-190,
it
is
said
that,
early
in
August,
1894,
thousands
of
jellyfish,
about
the
size
of
a
shilling,
had
fallen
at
Bath,
England.
I
think
it
is
not
acceptable
that
they
were
jellyfish:
but
it
does
look
as
if
this
time
frog
spawn
did
fall
from
the
sky,
and
may
have
been
translated
by
a
whirlwind--because,
at
the
same
time,
small
frogs
fell
at
Wigan,
England.
Nature,
87-10:
That,
June
24,
1911,
at
Eton,
Bucks,
England,
the
ground
was
found
covered
with
masses
of
jelly,
the
size
of
peas,
after
a
heavy
rainfall.
We
are
not
told
of
nostoc,
this
time:
it
is
said
that
the
object
contained
numerous
eggs
of
"some
species
of
Chironomus,
from
which
larvae
soon
emerged."
I
incline,
then,
to
think
that
the
objects
that
fell
at
Bath
were
neither
jellyfish
nor
masses
of
frog
spawn,
but
something
of
a
larval
kind--
This
is
what
had
occurred
at
Bath,
England,
23
years
before.
London
Times,
April
24,
1871:
That,
upon
the
22nd
of
April,
1871,
a
storm
of
glutinous
drops
neither
jellyfish
nor
masses
of
frog
spawn,
but
something
of
a
[line
missing
here
in
original
text.
Ed.]
railroad
station,
at
Bath.
"Many
soon
developed
into
a
worm-like
chrysalis,
about
an
inch
in
length."
The
account
of
this
occurrence
in
the
Zoologist,
2-6-2686,
is
more
like
the
Eton-datum:
of
minute
forms,
said
to
have
been
infusoria;
not
forms
about
an
inch
in
length.
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