Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact - Above Top Secret

and women who fell into the clutches of the Inquisition (although this material would be quiteworthy of a parallel study.) I am quoting official records of the time, gathered from and witnessedby clerics and policemen, of which the following is typical.In the early seventeenth century, the cathedral at Quimper-Corentin, France, had on its roof apyramid covered with lead. On February 1, 1620, between 7:00 and 8:00 P.M., thunder fell on thatpyramid, and it caught fire, exploded, and fell down with a stupendous noise. People rushed to thecathedral from all parts of the town and saw, in the midst of the lightning and smoke, a demon of agreen color with a long green tail, doing his best to keep the fire going! This account, which waspublished in Paris, is supplemented by a more complete version printed in Rennes. This latterversion adds that the demon "was seen clearly by all, inside the fire, sometimes green, sometimesblue and yellow."What were the authorities to do? They threw into the roaring fire a quantity of blessed objects, closeto one hundred and fifty buckets of water, and forty of fifty carloads of manure – to no avail. Thedemon was still there, and the fire kept burning. Something drastic had to be done: a consecratedhost was placed inside a loaf of bread and thrown into the flames, and then blessed water was mixedwith milk given by a nurse of above-reproach conduct and spread over the demon and the burningpyramid. This the visitor could not stand; he whistled in a most horrible fashion and flew away.I can only recommend the recipe to the U.S. Air Force, if they can find a nurse with the rightqualifications.Eight hundred years earlier (that is, about 830) in the days of Emperor Lothaire, creatures similar tothe Elementals were often seen in the northern parts of the Netherlands. According to Corneil VanKempen, they were called White Ladies. He compares them to nymphs of antiquity. They lived incaves, and they would attack people who traveled at night. The shepherds would also be harassed.And the women who had newly born babies had to be very careful, for they were quick in stealingthe children away. In their lair, one could hear all sorts of strange noises, indistinct words that noone could understand, and musical sounds.The Sixteen Conclusions of Reverend KirkIn the last half of the seventeenth century, a Scottish scholar gathered all the accounts he could findabout the Sleagh Maith and, in 1691, wrote an amazing manuscript entitled The SecretCommonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies. It was the first systematic attempt to describe themethods and organization of the strange creatures that plagued the farmers of Scotland. The author,Reverend Kirk, of Aberfoyle, studied theology at St. Andrews and took his degree of professor atEdinburgh. Later he served as minister for the parishes of Balquedder and Aberfoyle and died in1692.Kirk invented the name "the Secret Commonwealth" to describe the organization of the elves. It isimpossible to quote the entire text of his treatise, but we can summarize his findings about elves andother aerial creatures in the following way:1. They have a nature that is intermediate between man and the angels.2. Physically, they have very light and fluid bodies, which are comparable to a condensedcloud. They are particularly visible at dusk. They can appear and vanish at will.3. Intellectually, they are intelligent and curious.4. They have the power to carry away anything they like.5. They live inside the earth in caves, which they can reach through any crevice or openingwhere air passes.