Book of the Damned — Chapters 27-28

27 Vast and black.

The thing that was poised, like a crow over the moon.

Round and smooth.

Cannon balls.

Things that have fallen from the sky to this earth.

Our slippery brains.

Things like cannon balls have fallen, in storms, upon this earth.

Like cannon balls are things that, in storms, have fallen to this earth.

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-- Of course: That they looked like "vegetable cells."

A note: That nine days before had fallen the red substance--flesh--whatever it may have been--of Bath County, Kentucky.

I think that a super-egotist, vast, but not so vast as it had supposed, had refused to move to one side for a comet.

We summarize our general super-geographical expressions: Gelatinous regions, sulphurous regions, frigid and tropical regions: a region that has been Source of Life relatively to this earth: regions wherein there is density so great that things from them, entering this earth's thin atmosphere, explode.

We have had a datum of explosive hailstones.

We now have support to the acceptance that they had been formed in a medium far denser than air of this earth at sea-level.

In the _Popular Science News_, 22-38, is an account of ice that had been formed, under great pressure, in the laboratory of the University of Virginia.

When released and brought into contact with ordinary air, this ice exploded.

And again the flesh-like substance that fell in Kentucky: its flake-like formation.

Here is a phenomenon that is familiar to us: it suggests flattening, under pressure.

But the extraordinary inference is--pressure not equal on all sides.

In the _Annual Record of Science_, 1873-350, it is said that, in 1873, after a heavy thunderstorm in Louisiana, a tremendous number of fish scales were found, for a distance of forty miles, along the banks of the Mississippi River: bushels of them picked up in single places: large scales that were said to be of the gar fish, a fish that weighs from five to fifty pounds.

It seems impossible to accept this identification: one thinks of a substance that had been pressed into flakes or scales.

And round hailstones with wide thin margins of ice irregularly around them--still, such hailstones seem to me more like things that had been stationary: had been held in a field of thin ice.

In the _Illustrated London News_, 34-546, are drawings of hailstones so margined, as if they had been held in a sheet of ice.

Some day we shall have an expression which will be, to our advanced primitiveness, a great joy: That devils have visited this earth: foreign devils: human-like beings, with pointed beards: good singers; one shoe ill-fitting--but with sulphurous exhalations, at any rate.

I have been impressed with the frequent occurrence of sulphurousness with things that come from the sky.

A fall of jagged pieces of ice, Orkney, July 24, 1818 (_Trans.

Roy.

Soc.

Edin.

_, 9-187).

They had a strong sulphurous odor.

And the coke--or the substance that looked like coke--that fell at Mortree, France, April 24, 1887: with it fell a sulphurous substance.

The enormous round things that rose from the ocean, near the _Victoria_.

Whether we still accept that they were super-constructions that had come from a denser atmosphere and, in danger of disruption, had plunged into the ocean for relief, then rising and continuing on their way to Jupiter or Uranus--it was reported that they spread a "stench of sulphur."

At any rate, this datum of proximity is against the conventional explanation that these things did not rise from the ocean, but rose far away above the horizon, with illusion of nearness.

And the things that were seen in the sky July, 1898: I have another note.

In _Nature_, 58-224, a correspondent writes that, upon July 1, 1898, at Sedberg, he had seen in the sky--a red object--or, in his own wording, something that looked like the red part of a rainbow, about 10 degrees long.

But the sky was dark at the time.

The sun had set.

A heavy rain was falling.

Throughout this book, the datum that we are most impressed with: Successive falls.

Or that, if upon one small area, things fall from the sky, and then, later, fall again upon the same small area, they are not products of a whirlwind, which though sometimes axially stationary, discharges tangentially-- So the frogs that fell at Wigan.

I have looked that matter up again.

Later more frogs fell.

As to our data of gelatinous substance said to have fallen to this earth with meteorites, it is our expression that meteorites, tearing through the shaky, protoplasmic seas of Genesistrine--against which we warn aviators, or they may find themselves suffocating in a reservoir of life, or stuck like currants in a blanc mange--that meteorites detach gelatinous, or protoplasmic, lumps that fall with them.

Now the element of positiveness in our composition yearns for the appearance of completeness.

Super-geographical lakes with fishes in them.

Meteorites that plunge through these lakes, on their way to this earth.

The positiveness in our make-up must have expression in at least one record of a meteorite that has brought down a lot of fishes with it-- _Nature_, 3-512: That, near the bank of a river, in Peru, Feb.

4, 1871, a meteorite fell.

"On the spot, it is reported, several dead fishes were found, of different species."

The attempt to correlate is--that the fishes "are supposed to have been lifted out of the river and dashed against the stones."

Whether this be imaginable or not depends upon each one's own hypnoses.

_Nature_, 4-169: That the fishes had fallen among the fragments of the meteorite.

_Popular Science Review_, 4-126: That one day, Mr. Le Gould, an Australian scientist, was traveling in Queensland.

He saw a tree that had been broken off close to the ground.

Where the tree had been broken was a great bruise.

Near by was an object that "resembled a ten-inch shot."

A good many pages back there was an instance of over-shadowing, I think.

The little carved stone that fell at Tarbes is my own choice as the most impressive of our new correlates.

It was coated with ice, remember.

Suppose we should sift and sift and discard half the data in this book--suppose only that one datum should survive.

To call attention to the stone of Tarbes would, in my opinion, be doing well enough, for whatever the spirit of this book is trying to do.

Nevertheless, it seems to me that a datum that preceded it was slightingly treated.

The disk of quartz, said to have fallen from the sky, after a meteoric explosion: Said to have fallen at the plantation Bleijendal, Dutch Guiana: sent to the Museum of Leyden by M. van Sypesteyn, adjutant to the Governor of Dutch Guiana (_Notes and Queries_, 2-8-92).

And the fragments that fall from super-geographic ice fields: flat pieces of ice with icicles on them.

I think that we did not emphasize enough that, if these structures were not icicles, but crystalline protuberances, such crystalline formations indicate long suspension quite as notably as would icicles.

In the _Popular Science News_, 24-34, it is said that in 1869, near Tiflis, fell large hailstones with long protuberances.

"The most remarkable point in connection with the hailstones is the fact that, judging from our present knowledge, a very long time must have been occupied in their formation."

According to the _Geological Magazine_, 7-27, this fall occurred May 27, 1869. The writer in the _Geological Magazine_ says that of all theories that he had ever heard of, not one could give him light as to this occurrence--"these growing crystalline forms must have been suspended a long time"-- Again and again this phenomenon: Fourteen days later, at about the same place, more of these hailstones fell.

Rivers of blood that vein albuminous seas, or an egg-like composition in the incubation of which this earth is a local center of development--that there are super-arteries of blood in Genesistrine: that sunsets are consciousness of them: that they flush the skies with northern lights sometimes: super-embryonic reservoirs from which life-forms emanate-- Or that our whole solar system is a living thing: that showers of blood upon this earth are its internal hemorrhages-- Or vast living things in the sky, as there are vast living things in the oceans-- Or some one especial thing: an especial time: an especial place.

A thing the size of the Brooklyn Bridge.

It's alive in outer space--something the size of Central Park kills it-- It drips.

We think of the ice fields above this earth: which do not, themselves, fall to this earth, but from which water does fall-- _Popular Science News_, 35-104: That, according to Prof. Luigi Palazzo, head of the Italian Meteorological Bureau, upon May 15, 1890, at Messignadi, Calabria, something the color of fresh blood fell from the sky.

This substance was examined in the public-health laboratories of Rome.

It was found to be blood.

"The most probable explanation of this terrifying phenomenon is that migratory birds (quails or swallows) were caught and torn in a violent wind."

So the substance was identified as birds' blood-- What matters it what the microscopists of Rome said--or had to say--and what matters it that we point out that there is no assertion that there was a violent wind at the time--and that such a substance would be almost infinitely dispersed in a violent wind--that no bird was said to have fallen from the sky--or said to have been seen in the sky--that not a feather of a bird is said to have been seen-- This one datum: The fall of blood from the sky-- But later, in the same place, blood again fell from the sky.

28 _Notes and Queries_, 7-8-508: A correspondent who had been to Devonshire writes for information as to a story that he had heard there: of an occurrence of about thirty-five years before the date of writing: Of snow upon the ground--of all South Devonshire waking up one morning to find such tracks in the snow as had never before been heard of--"clawed footmarks" of "an unclassifiable form"--alternating at huge but regular intervals with what seemed to be the impression of the point of a stick--but the scattering of the prints--amazing expanse of territory covered--obstacles, such as hedges, walls, houses, seemingly surmounted-- Intense excitement--that the track had been followed by huntsmen and hounds, until they had come to a forest--from which the hounds had retreated, baying and terrified, so that no one had dared to enter the forest.

_Notes and Queries_, 7-9-18: Whole occurrence well-remembered by a correspondent: a badger had left marks in the snow: this was determined, and the excitement had "dropped to a dead calm in a single day."

_Notes and Queries_, 7-9-70: That for years a correspondent had had a tracing of the prints, which his mother had taken from those in the snow in her garden, in Exmouth: that they were hoof-like marks--but had been made by a biped.

_Notes and Queries_, 7-9-253: Well remembered by another correspondent, who writes of the excitement and consternation of "some classes."

He says that a kangaroo had escaped from a menagerie--"the footprints being so peculiar and far apart gave rise to a scare that the devil was loose."

We have had a story, and now we shall tell it over from contemporaneous sources.

We have had the later accounts first very largely for an impression of the correlating effect that time brings about, by addition, disregard and distortion.

For instance, the "dead calm in a single day."

If I had found that the excitement did die out rather soon, I'd incline to accept that nothing extraordinary had occurred.

I found that the excitement had continued for weeks.

I recognize this as a well-adapted thing to say, to divert attention from a discorrelate.

All phenomena are "explained" in the terms of the Dominant of their era.

This is why we give up trying really to explain, and content ourselves with expressing.

Devils that might print marks in snow are correlates to the third Dominant back from this era.

So it was an adjustment by nineteenth-century correlates, or human tropisms, to say that the marks in the snow were clawed.

Hoof-like marks are not only horsey but devilish.

It had to be said in the nineteenth century that those prints showed claw-marks.

We shall see that this was stated by Prof. Owen, one of the greatest biologists of his day--except that Darwin didn't think so.

But I shall give reference to two representations of them that can be seen in the New York Public Library.

In neither representation is there the faintest suggestion of a claw-mark.

There never has been a Prof. Owen who has explained: he has correlated.

Another adaptation, in the later accounts, is that of leading this discorrelate to the Old Dominant into the familiar scenery of a fairy story, and discredit it by assimilation to the conventionally fictitious--so the idea of the baying, terrified hounds, and forest like enchanted forests, which no one dared to enter.

Hunting parties were organized, but the baying, terrified hounds do not appear in contemporaneous accounts.

The story of the kangaroo looks like adaptation to needs for an animal that could spring far, because marks were found in the snow on roofs of houses.

But so astonishing is the extent of snow that was marked that after a while another kangaroo was added.

But the marks were in single lines.

My own acceptance is that not less than a thousand one-legged kangaroos, each shod with a very small horseshoe, could have marked that snow of Devonshire.

London _Times_, Feb 16, 1855: "Considerable sensation has been caused in the towns of Topsham, Lymphstone, Exmouth, Teignmouth, and Dawlish, in Devonshire, in consequence of the discovery of a vast number of foot tracks of a most strange and mysterious description."

The story is of an incredible multiplicity of marks discovered in the morning of Feb.

8, 1855, in the snow, by the inhabitants of many towns and regions between towns.

This great area must of course be disregarded by Prof. Owen and the other correlators.

The tracks were in all kinds of unaccountable places: in gardens enclosed by high walls, and up on the tops of houses, as well as in the open fields.

There was in Lymphstone scarcely one unmarked garden.

We've had heroic disregards but I think that here disregard was titanic.

And, because they occurred in single lines, the marks are said to have been "more like those of a biped than of a quadruped"--as if a biped would place one foot precisely ahead of another--unless it hopped--but then we have to think of a thousand, or of thousands.

It is said that the marks were "generally 8 inches in advance of each other."

"The impression of the foot closely resembles that of a donkey's shoe, and measured from an inch and a half, in some instances, to two and a half inches across."

Or the impressions were cones in incomplete, or crescentic basins.

The diameters equaled diameters of very young colts' hoofs: too small to be compared with marks of donkey's hoofs.

"On Sunday last the Rev. Mr. Musgrave alluded to the subject in his sermon and suggested the possibility of the footprints being those of a kangaroo, but this could scarcely have been the case, as they were found on both sides of the Este.

At present it remains a mystery, and many superstitious people in the above-named towns are actually afraid to go outside their doors after night."

The Este is a body of water two miles wide.

London _Times_, March 6, 1855: "The interest in this matter has scarcely yet subsided, many inquiries still being made into the origin of the footprints, which caused so much consternation upon the morning of the 8th ult.

In addition to the circumstances mentioned in the _Times_ a little while ago, it may be stated that at Dawlish a number of persons sallied out, armed with guns and other weapons, for the purpose, if possible, of discovering and destroying the animal which was supposed to have been so busy in multiplying its footprints.

As might have been expected, the party returned as they went.

Various speculations have been made as to the cause of the footprints.

Some have asserted that they are those of a kangaroo, while others affirm that they are the impressions of claws of large birds driven ashore by stress of weather.

On more than one occasion reports have been circulated that an animal from a menagerie had been caught, but the matter at present is as much involved in mystery as ever it was."

In the _Illustrated London News_, the occurrence is given a great deal of space.

In the issue of Feb.

24, 1855, a sketch is given of the prints.

I call them cones in incomplete basins.

Except that they're a little longish, they look like prints of hoofs of horses--or, rather, of colts.

But they're in a single line.

It is said that the marks from which the sketch was made were 8 inches apart, and that this spacing was regular and invariable "in every parish."

Also other towns besides those named in the _Times_ are mentioned.

The writer, who had spent a winter in Canada, and was familiar with tracks in snow, says that he had never seen "a more clearly defined track."

Also he brings out the point that was so persistently disregarded by Prof. Owen and the other correlators--that "no known animal walks in a line of single footsteps, not even man."

With these wider inclusions, this writer concludes with us that the marks were not footprints.

It may be that his following observation hits upon the crux of the whole occurrence: That whatever it may have been that had made the marks, it had removed, rather than pressed, the snow.

According to his observations the snow looked "as if branded with a hot iron."

_Illustrated London News_, March 3, 1855-214: Prof. Owen, to whom a friend had sent drawings of the prints, writes that there were claw-marks.

He says that the "track" was made by "a" badger.

Six other witnesses sent letters to this number of the _News_.

One mentioned, but not published, is a notion of a strayed swan.

Always this homogeneous-seeing--"a" badger--"a" swan--"a" track.

I should have listed the other towns as well as those mentioned in the _Times_.

A letter from Mr. Musgrave is published.

He, too, sends a sketch of the prints.

It, too, shows a single line.

There are four prints, of which the third is a little out of line.

There is no sign of a claw-mark.

The prints look like prints of longish hoofs of a very young colt, but they are not so definitely outlined as in the sketch of February 24th, as if drawn after disturbance by wind, or after thawing had set in.

Measurements at places a mile and a half apart, gave the same inter-spacing--"exactly eight inches and a half apart."

We now have a little study in the psychology and genesis of an attempted correlation.

Mr. Musgrave says: "I found a very apt opportunity to mention the name 'kangaroo' in allusion to the report then current."

He says that he had no faith in the kangaroo-story himself, but was glad "that a kangaroo was in the wind," because it opposed "a dangerous, degrading, and false impression that it was the devil."

"Mine was a word in season and did good."

Whether it's Jesuitical or not, and no matter what it is or isn't, that is our own acceptance: that, though we've often been carried away from this attitude controversially, that is our acceptance as to every correlate of the past that has been considered in this book--relatively to the Dominant of its era.

Another correspondent writes that, though the prints in all cases resembled hoof marks, there were indistinct traces of claws--that "an" otter had made the marks.

After that many other witnesses wrote to the _News_.

The correspondence was so great that, in the issue of March 10th, only a selection could be given.

There's "a" jumping-rat solution and "a" hopping-toad inspiration, and then someone came out strong with an idea of "a" hare that had galloped with pairs of feet held close together, so as to make impressions in a single line.

London _Times_, March 14, 1840: "Among the high mountains of that elevated district where Glenorchy, Glenlyon and Glenochay are contiguous, there have been met with several times, during this and also the former winter, upon the snow, the tracks of an animal seemingly unknown at present in Scotland.

The print, in every respect, is an exact resemblance to that of a foal of considerable size, with this small difference, perhaps, that the sole seems a little longer, or not so round; but as no one has had the good fortune as yet to have obtained a glimpse of this creature, nothing more can be said of its shape or dimensions; only it has been remarked, from the depth to which the feet sank in the snow, that it must be a beast of considerable size.

It has been observed also that its walk is not like that of the generality of quadrupeds, but that it is more like the bounding or leaping of a horse when scared or pursued.

It is not in one locality that its tracks have been met with, but through a range of at least twelve miles."

In the _Illustrated London News_, March 17, 1855, a correspondent from Heidelberg writes, "upon the authority of a Polish Doctor of Medicine," that on the Piashowa-gora (Sand Hill) a small elevation on the border of Galicia, but in Russian Poland, such marks are to be seen in the snow every year, and sometimes in the sand of this hill, and "are attributed by the inhabitants to supernatural influences."

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