sudden displacement <strong>of</strong> warm air or a violent whirlwind. I saw the trees bending as if undera sudden storm, and I was nearly thrown down. Almost simultaneously, there was a strong,blinding white light. I had the feeling something flew through the air very fast, but I sawnothing. Soon everything became calm again. I felt discomfort and nausea. I reached thehouse <strong>of</strong> the lock-keeper – and when I opened the door they came toward me and asked mewhat had happened, because they too had seen a light from their house. The lock-keeper'swife asked me what was wrong. When I was able to speak at last, they told me all the fingerswere still deeply marked in the flesh <strong>of</strong> my face, making large red bars. They appliedperocide to the scratches on my legs, and an ointment, and bathed me face with cold water.My hands were badly hurt.After a long lapse <strong>of</strong> time I started again toward the town to buy a few things, withoutsaying anything to anyone, and I came back home laboriously, by another path.The previous evening, the witness in this case had observed a "kind <strong>of</strong> shooting star," whichstopped abruptly, then appeared to go up and stay among the other stars for a while, then to growbigger and take on a kind <strong>of</strong> swimming motion, its light alternately on and <strong>of</strong>f. Suddenly it left, on acurved trajectory, and reached the horizon at very high speed. She had dismissed the incident fromher mind at the time. The <strong>of</strong>ficial investigation got nowhere and was dropped. The case is stillcarried as an unsolved abduction attempt.What can we say about such reports? They are neither more nor less believable than other UFOsightings; they are in line with some <strong>of</strong> the most dramatic stories <strong>of</strong> older days, which inspired thefairy tales; they are also in line with the visions <strong>of</strong> the 1897 airship and the incidents that followedit.I now have several other reliable cases in my files where the beings – and in some cases, the UFOitself – were invisible.The records <strong>of</strong> ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) contain another abduction casethat occurred on August 21, 1915. In that incident, which I have not been able to confirm, an entireregiment was posted as "missing."Taken by the WindWe have now examined several claims <strong>of</strong> abductions and attempts at kidnappings by the allegedoccupants <strong>of</strong> flying saucers. These episode are an integral part <strong>of</strong> the total UFO problem and cannotbe solved separately. Historical evidence gathered by Evans-Wentz points in the same direction.This sort <strong>of</strong> belief in fairies being able to take people was very common and exists yet in agood many parts <strong>of</strong> West Ireland.The Good People are <strong>of</strong>ten seen there [pointing to Knoch Magh] in great crowds playinghurley and ball. And one <strong>of</strong>ten sees among them the young men and women and childrenwho have been taken.Not only are people taken away, but – as in flying saucer stories – they may be picked up and setdown again. A man named John Campbell told Evans-Wentz:A man whom I have seen, Roderick Mac Neil, was lifted by the hosts and left three milesfrom where he was taken up. The hosts went at about midnight.Reverend Kirk gives a few stories <strong>of</strong> similar extraordinary kidnappings, but the most fantasticlegend <strong>of</strong> all is that attached to Kirk himself. The good reverend is commonly believed to have beentaken by strange beings:
Mrs. J. MacGregor who keeps the key to the old churchyard where there is a tomb to Kirk,though many say there is nothing in it but a c<strong>of</strong>fin filled with stones, told me Kirk was takeninto the Fairy Knoll, which she pointed to just across a little valley in front <strong>of</strong> us, and is thereyet, for the hill is full <strong>of</strong> caverns and in them the "good people" have their homes. And sheadded that Kirk appeared to a relative <strong>of</strong> his after he was taken.Evans-Wentz, who reports this interesting story, made further inquiries regarding the circumstances<strong>of</strong> Kirk's death. He went to see the successor to Kirk in Aberfoyle, Reverend Taylor, who clarifiedthe story:At the time <strong>of</strong> his disappearance people said he was taken because the fairies weredispleased with him for disclosing their secrets in so public manner as he did. At all events,it seems likely that Kirk was taken ill very suddenly with something like apoplexy while onthe Fairy Knoll, and died there. I have searched the presbyter books and find no record <strong>of</strong>how Kirk's death really took place, but <strong>of</strong> course there is not the least doubt <strong>of</strong> his bodybeing in the grave.Kirk believed in the ability <strong>of</strong> the Good People to perform abductions, and this idea was sowidespread that it has come down to us through a variety <strong>of</strong> channels. This fact enables us toexamine in detail four aspects <strong>of</strong> fairy lore that directly relate to our study: (1) the conditions andpurpose <strong>of</strong> the abductions; (2) the cases <strong>of</strong> release from Magonia and the forms taken by the elves'gratitude when the abducted human being had performed some valuable service during his stay; (3)the belief in the kidnapping activities <strong>of</strong> the fairy people; and (4) what I shall call the relativisticaspects <strong>of</strong> the trip to Magonia.Hartland reports that a Swedish book published in 1775 contains a legal statement, solemnly swornon April 12, 1671, by the husband <strong>of</strong> a midwife who was taken to fairyland to assist a troll's wife ingiving birth to a child. The author <strong>of</strong> the statement seems to have been a clergyman.On the authority <strong>of</strong> this declaration we are called on to believe that the event recordedactually happened in the year 1660. Peter Rahm alleges that he and his wife were at theirfarm one evening late when there came a little man, swart <strong>of</strong> face and clad in grey, whobegged the declarant's wife to come and help his wife then in labour. The declarant, seeingthat they had to do with a Troll, prayed over his wife, blessed her, and bade her in God'sname go with the stranger. She seemed to be borne along by the wind.It is reported that she came home "in the same manner," having refused any food <strong>of</strong>fered to herwhile in the troll's company.In another tale, the midwife's husband accompanies her through the forest. They are guided by the"earthman" – the gnome who has requested their help. They go through a moss door, then a woodendoor, and later through a door <strong>of</strong> shining metal. A stairway leads them inside the earth, to amagnificent chamber where the "earthwife" is resting. Kirk reports that in a case whose principalshe personally knew the abducted woman found the home <strong>of</strong> the Little People filled with light,although she could not see any lamp or fire.Reverend Kirk also says that later, "in the company <strong>of</strong> another clergyman," he visited a woman,then forty years old, and asked her questions concerning her knowledge <strong>of</strong> the fairies. It wasrumored that for a number <strong>of</strong> years she had taken almost no nourishment, and that she <strong>of</strong>ten stayedlate in the fields looking after her sheep, that she met there and talked with people she did not know,and that one night she had fallen asleep on a hill and had been carried away into another placebefore sunrise. This woman, says Kirk, was always melancholy and silent.Magonia, as it appears in such tales, is sometimes a remote country, an invisible island, somefaraway place one can reach only by a long journey. Indeed, in some tales, it is a celestial country,as in the Indian story quoted earlier. This parallels the belief in the extraterrestrial origin <strong>of</strong> UFOs so
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About the AuthorAn astrophysicist b