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MAY-17-1552 [TUE] Unusual Weather (Dordrecht, Holland)
MAY-17-1552 [TUE]LOCATION:
WHAT HAPPENED:
The following translation is from a report which was written up at the time in 1552: "Several hailstones had a natural shape of a sun. On others appeared a crown of thorns." RESEARCH NOTES: (1552-05-17/2015-07-18) [TOP]
There's not a hell of a lot to research in this event, but don't worry, we'll find something, something interesting to look at. We're good at that, so never fear, this will not be boring, unless I start getting long winded, like right now. In our original source, it shows (what we presume to be) a picture of the original source written (in what we also assume to be) Dutch. To us, it looks like a poster of some kind, or a flyer that was either put up or passed out at the time. Remember, this was before Guttenberg revolutionized the printing process with his printing press in 1699. We think that before then, blocks of wood (or something similar) were carved out whole, not letter by letter like the Guttenberg press did, and that piece was placed on the paper which then had pressure applied to it with a big ass crank, or so Hollywood has led me to believe all these years, or so they think... Here is a translation of the writing shown in the picture, FROM (Page 200): Mysteries of the Unexplained, Reader's Digest "A Prodigiously Huge Hailstone In the book, this event itself followed after two other unusual and somewhat similar hailstone reports, which were a lot closer to our present time. To be exact, one occured in 1901 (St. Lawrence River, Alexandria Bay, NY USA) and the other in 1908 (Parish of Saint-Etienne-les-Remiremont, west of the Vosges Mountains in eastern France). In 1901, the stones were ultimately measured (correctly, we assume) at two inches thick and three inches long. In 1908, some of the stones were weighed (correctly, we assume again) and came in between six and seven ounces. Both reports from the book gave not only descriptions of the hailstones, but also the interesting images you could see in them, that we both think could easily be interpreted (even today) as religious in nature. In 1901, " ...when they were half melted, 'many had the appearance of the human eye--a pupil in the center and a ring surrounding it, with fine lines radiating in all directions.'"[1] In 1908, the report came from the writings of a Pastor (L'Abbe Gueniot le Cure) of the Parish (where the hailstones he examined had fallen) who, when he first wrote down what he thought the images looked like, wrote down that he thought they were of the "Virgin of the Hermits", or as Mlle. Marie Andre put it, "Our Virgin of the Treasure", is how she described it to the Pastor after finally getting him up to come look. I kind of figured they were both talking about the "Mother Mary", you know, the Blessed Virgin Mother Of God or Jesus Christ, can I get an Amen, that "Mother Mary", or as the Pastor finally put it down in his writings, the "Blessed Virgin" while shaming himself for the first time for his "credulity", but what he also felt was that the "Blessed Virgin" would hardly concern herself with such a trivial matter as to put pictures of herself in snowballs (paraphrasing the good Pastor of course). Now THAT's funny. And even though the pastor had turned away, not wanting to see anymore because of his shame, he still noted down that the images were on the outside front of the stones which were slighly convex in nature while the outlines of the images were slighly hollow as though they had been formed with a punch, and a seam around the middle like it had been machine made, but seams on hailstones weren't unusual (at least according to the Pastor's own writings anyway), and even though he shamed himself for his "credulity" and finally because he was starting to turn his think too supernaturally, at least twice, this being the second, he still wrote all this down. The skeptic in me likes that. Anywho, the source for the 1901 event is listed at the end as, "Monthly Weather Review, 29:506-07, November 1901". The source for the 1908 event is listed at the end as, "British Mechanic and World of Science, 87:436, June 12, 1908". I'm wondering if these both were magazines of some sort and how popular would a monthly magazine be about the weather, and were they still being printed? I mean sure, it's one thing everyone can talk about, but Geez, a magazine devoted to it. I guess if you can have cable channels devoted entirely to just that, and golf too, anythings possible. Dave agrees with me about most of that except the weather channel part, although he hadn't thought of whether it was still printing or not, he agrees with that also, but he did want me to add that these reports (according to Dave) sound suspiciously like something Charle's Fort would have reported in one of his books. It was about that time too, Dave tried to explain in his defense, that Fort would have started his research and his writings too, so it fits and "is definitely worth checking out", which are code words for "that's MY job". But this time, I tend to agree with Dave on the Fort connection. I've read some of his books, and although I found his style a little difficult to follow, it does sound like something he would report, and Dave does have all his books so that would be easy to do. We'll put this on the Back Burner 4 Now (ABBR>BB4N) while I wait for the books so I can do a little reading and Dave updates our INDEX and CALENDAR BY YEAR webpages. Hope to see you back here again real soon... and while your waiting, you might want to peruse through the following: FORT NOTES: (1552-05-17/2015-07-18) [TOP]
BIBLIOGRAPHY/SOURCES (1552-05-17): [TOP]
[2] Complete Books Of Charles Fort, The RELATED SUBJECTS (1552-05-17): [TOP]
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