16:34 Nov 3, 2006 |
English to Portuguese translations [PRO] Folklore / Unexplained phenomena | |||||||
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4 | "papel de pântano" |
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"papel de pântano" Explanation: :) |
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reference Explanation: "In the year 1686, some workmen, who had been fetching water from a pond, seven German miles from Memel, on returning to their work, after dinner (during which there had been a snow storm) found the flat ground around the pond covered with a coal-black, leafy mass; and a person who lived near said he had seen it fall like flakes with the snow." Some of these flake-like formations were as large as a table-top. "The mass was damp and smelt disagreeably, like rotten seaweed, but, when dried, the smell went off. "It tore fibrously like paper." Classic explanation: "Up from one place, and down in another." But what went up, from one place, in a whirlwind? ..... Some flakes of marsh-paper were exhibited. Their composition was chiefly of conifervæ. http://www.sacred-texts.com/fort/damned/damn05.htm |
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