According to one of the Christian legends, the famous Pillar in Zaragoza was brought there by angels, which was accompanied by the Virgin Mary, from the top of the pillar she guided the Apostle James Similar legends exist in many countries. They appear man-made objects, such as, for example, said pillar, which supposedly fell from the sky. They are at all times were considered sacred, were placed in temples or used in magic rituals. Now a significant number of such items gathering dust in the vaults of museums and exhibitions in the secondary with the sign "Ritual objects Stone Age." It is interesting to note that in the catalog Greg, published in the "Report of the British Association" for 1860, is listed kolonnopodobny processed stone that fell from the sky in Constantinople around the year 416.
Pyramidal stones, known as "thunder stones", "Gromovik", "heaven ax" or "lightning bolts" are recognized mascots, protect against lightning. Residents of Burma, China, and Japan believe that these items are made in heaven. Some naturalists in the Middle Ages believed that the "thunder stones" are "born in heaven, from the breath of lightning, thicken under the influence of ambient moisture." However, centuries passed before scientists previously denied the possibility of such phenomena were forced to admit that the stones could fall from the sky.
Of particular interest are the messages that appear similar to the axes of the stones, the detected lightning strike in the ground or in the trunk of a tree affected by lightning. Geography People's perceptions of what these stones are associated with lightning, is quite wide: from Jamaica to Norway and from Malaya to the British Isles. Fort notes that similar views existed among the Indians of North and South America.
The Anglo-Saxons have experienced a real fear of the "core of elves" and "magic arrows" that is, tiny stones that supposedly treated and hurled to the ground fairies. This attitude to them is present in different historical times in different people. What is today preserved in folk memory, when it could be based on an actual event. Converse is also true: what was perceived as an invention, it may in fact turn out to be a fact. An example in which an "elf kernel", leads AA Makgregor in his book "Island of Ghosts", "One" magic arrow "picked up in Loch Maddy few years ago, a girl who went out for the evening dark peat briquettes, suddenly heard something in the air whistled and fell at her feet. "
Worked stone in the form of a disc "very correct form" fell from the sky in the town of Tarbes (France) in June 1887. In the magazine "Contact Randy" was an attempt to explain this case the action of the tornado. In 1910, the magazine "Scientific American" turned stormy debate when Charles Holder announced that he was able to decipher the inscription carved on the surface of the stone, "resembling a meteorite." The meteorite that have fallen in the Yaqui Valley in Mexico. Holder's assertion that the inscription was made in the language of the Maya, easily refuted specialists, and the incident was soon forgotten. It does not bother to check the original statement, if a stone fell to the ground, which was an inscription.
At present, this phenomenon seems to have acquired a new form: now no one talks about the divine nature of falling from the sky of modern technology. According to reports, since 1911, regularly reported on the fall to the ground foil and "sparkles", since 1842 - the fall of chemicals since 1936 - nuts and bolts, from 1955 - plastics, and in 1961 fell brass cube. In Bidzhori (India), as reported, for nearly a century from the sky rained beads with the work done in these holes for threading the thread. Sometimes they fall so much that you can dial a handful. All attempts to discover the origin of the beads (following the assumption that the "tornado" transports them from somewhere and that, where they come from, whether it be a factory or a warehouse, they will periodically be lacking) proved futile. Similarly, the police could not explain, where did the ball for the game of golf that fell during a storm in the town of Punta Gorda, Florida September 3, 1969.
As published in the 1922 book E.G.K. Werner's "Myths and Legends of China" is ancient history that a Lei Kun, Prince of thunder, dropped from the sky bottle with a medical ointment one woman who was struck by lightning. The modern equivalent of the legend, though somewhat different in spirit and form, it is possible to treat the messages of the overthrow of heaven dirt, chips, stones, broken glass and pottery shards on the residents Pinyar del Rio, Cuba, and as much as 4 times in 1968 (" Beyond ", October 1969). A huge number of nails spilled from the night sky on his wife for the lighthouse at Point Isabel, Texas. It happened on October 12, 1888, and on October 16 the same year, the newspaper "St. Louis Globe Democrat," wrote that the next night hail of nails was repeated, but this time accompanied by clods and oyster shells. This phenomenon has attracted crowds of curious onlookers, who told us that saw the fall of nails near the lighthouse with my own eyes.
There is a lot of data on incidents that may be considered objects falling from the sky, although there are no witnesses. According to the "St. Louis Post Dispatch," November 10, 1965 a resident of Louisville, Kentucky, heard the roar. When he ran out to see what had happened, his eyes appeared a yard strewn with packets of biscuits. Since the packages were found even on the roof of the garage, the neighbors have suggested that cookies had fallen from the sky, possibly with the aircraft. It was not possible to establish any manufacturer biscuits, nor his identity. Moreover, neither the pilot did not report a loss of cargo.
There is no doubt that assertion woman ehavshey by car in Palm Springs, California, that had fallen from the sky wheel and severely damaged the roof of her car. According to the "New York Times" on 17 April 1969, the authorities have not received information about how the loss of the wheel or the plane.
Such objects falling quite mysterious in itself. What to say then about when the fall of the same items occur repeatedly in the same place. According to the "Religious and philosophical journal", pieces of rusty iron fell in Orenburg, January 25, 1824, followed by their decline was reported four months later.
Let us turn to the fraction of iron, which at certain intervals as long as several days drizzled inside one office in Newton, New Jersey (USA). Released March 3, 1929 the newspaper "San Francisco Chronicle" called this event "the greatest mystery in the history of the city", and it is still unclear how the fraction penetrated into the building. After about a similar case, said "religious philosophy journal," one reader wrote a letter, published April 24, 1880, with a description of the bullets that fell in broad daylight in every room of his house in 1867. Then, for an hour or more was to pour a large fraction "for hunting birds." Whenever he wanted to collect this shot, he found no more than a half-dozen pellets and the rest mysteriously disappeared.
Bulletin of the International Training Centre of Sri Aurobindo for February 1974 posted a lengthy flashback witness the fall of pieces of bricks in different rooms of the building Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry (India) in December 1921. Neither the attackers nor the reasons for this phenomenon was observed, and the bricks continued to fall in the yard, in the kitchen and on the stairs. The inhabitants of the house soon noticed that the bricks can be seen just below the level of the roof, as if they occur at this level, and as soon as they materialize, are beginning to fall. The inhabitants also noted that this phenomenon as something to do with the local scullion. They locked him in a room in which there were no openings, but the bricks did not cease to fall, even causing him bodily injury. In 41 years prior to this event in a school close to the house of the ruler of Madras bricks falling not less than five days in the presence of 30 observers. March 5, 1888 the newspaper "Madras Mail" wrote that the priests advised to note one fallen brick white cross and put it in the middle class. To everyone's amazement, the "brick of the same size, but with a black cross" has fallen for the first brick, and with such precision that even fell out with him.
In ancient times, people prayed for sending down "manna from heaven" and get it. As proof that this tradition has not disappeared, offer modern equivalent of "money" in the rain "concrete desert" of the city. Some of such cases occur, as assured by witnesses, with boisterous and angry ghosts (eg, falling penny coins together with pieces of ash and coal during the riots in Battersea, London area). This case is described Harry Pryce in his book "Ghost over England," published in 1945.
Perhaps the most remarkable manifestation of ghosts riot was the complete destruction of the house at the Sorbonne, Paris, as a result of the endless bombardment of building material. This went on every night for three weeks, as there is evidence in the Official Journal of the French police "Gazettde Tribune", published Feb. 2, 1849, which also contains, though undated references to cases where the "rain of small coins gathered on the street in Paris Montesquieu crowd of onlookers. " Note that this happened several times in a row.
Fort mentions the loss of coins in Trafalgar Square in London, without giving any details. Penny and polupensovye coins fell under the feet of children on their way home from school in Haneme, Bristol, both wrote about it September 30, 1956 London "Pipl". August 5, 1940 as the London "Daily Express" printed note that during a storm in Meshchera in Russia, everywhere poured silver coins.
"Pipl" February 17, 1957 reported that a resident of Gateshead, County Durham, located in the courtyard of his house, heard above her head whistled two subjects. It turned out half-pension. Penny coins in the amount of 4050 pieces fell in small batches for 15 minutes in Ramsgate, Kent. September 10, 1968 "Daily Mirror" noted that "the fall they can not be seen - only heard it as they pounded the pavement." Oddly enough, but all the coins were twisted.
January 6, 1976 "Bath Chronicle" described how the two priests in Limburg (Germany) collected nowhere fallen down two thousand marks in banknotes of various denominations. But even this case can not be compared to when the thousand-bills fell to the residents of Bourges (France). Despite all the efforts to investigate the incident, she wrote, "Sunday Express" 15 April 1957, no one told about the loss and did not present its rights to the banknotes.
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