The Book of the Damned. Charles Fort

      Amer. Jour. Sci., 1841-40:

      That, March 24, 1840—during a thunderstorm—at Rajkit, India, occurred a fall of grain. It was reported by Col. Sykes, of the British Association.

      The natives were greatly excited—because it was grain of a kind unknown to them.

      Usually comes forward a scientist who knows more of the things that natives know best than the natives know—but it so happens that the usual thing was not done definitely in this instance:

      "The grain was shown to some botanists, who did not immediately recognize it, but thought it to be either a spartium or a vicia."