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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
97
Were
there
some
especially
froggy
place
near
Europe,
as
there
is
an
especially
sandy
place,
the
scientific
explanation
would
of
course
be
that
all
small
frogs
falling
from
the
sky
in
Europe
come
from
that
center
of
frogeity.
To
start
with,
I'd
like
to
emphasize
something
that
I
am
permitted
to
see
because
I
am
still
primitive
or
intelligent
or
in
a
state
of
maladjustment:
That
there
is
not
one
report
findable
of
a
fall
of
tadpoles
from
the
sky.
As
to
"there
in
the
first
place":
See
Leisure
Hours,
3-779,
for
accounts
of
small
frogs,
or
toads,
said
to
have
been
seen
to
fall
from
the
sky.
The
writer
says
that
all
observers
were
mistaken:
that
the
frogs
or
toads
must
have
fallen
from
trees
or
other
places
overhead.
Tremendous
number
of
little
toads,
one
or
two
months
old,
that
were
seen
to
fall
from
a
great
thick
cloud
that
appeared
suddenly
in
a
sky
that
had
been
cloudless,
August,
1804,
near
Toulouse,
France,
according
to
a
letter
from
Prof.
Pontus
to
M.
Arago.
(Comptes
Rendus,
3-54.)
Many
instances
of
frogs
that
were
seen
to
fall
from
the
sky.
(Notes
and
Queries,
8-6-104);
accounts
of
such
falls,
signed
by
witnesses.
(Notes
and
Queries,
8-6-190.)
Scientific
American,
July
12,
1873:
"A
shower
of
frogs
which
darkened
the
air
and
covered
the
ground
for
a
long
distance
is
the
reported
result
of
a
recent
rainstorm
at
Kansas
City,
Mo."
As
to
having
been
there
"in
the
first
place":
Little
frogs
found
in
London,
after
a
heavy
storm,
July
30,
1838.
(Notes
and
Queries,
8-7-437);
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