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In reply to the discussion: Navy Pilots Report Seeing Unidentified Flying Objects Over East Coast: NYT [View all]Kid Berwyn
(14,651 posts)62. Passport to Magonia
http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/vallee_magonia.html
Three men and a woman, actually. They fell from the sky, it would seem, in the vicinity of Lyon in whats now eastern France, early in the ninth century. They came from a place called Magonia.
So the local mob believed, as they prepared to stone them to death.
We have the story from Agobard, Archbishop of Lyon (c. 779-840), in a treatise directed against the absurd opinion of the common folk concerning hail and thunder. Agobard prided himself on his enlightenment; Scripture, not superstition, was for him the touchstone of truth. Heres the story he tells, as translated by W. J. Lewis for the Internet Medieval Sourcebook:
But we have seen and heard of many people overcome with so much foolishness, made crazy by so much stupidity, that they believe and say that there is a certain region, which is called Magonia, from which ships come in the clouds. In these ships the crops that fell because of hail and were lost in storms are carried back into that region; evidently these aerial sailors make a payment to the storm-makers, and take the grain and other crops. Among those so blinded with profound stupidity that they believe these things could happen we have seen many people in a kind of meeting, exhibiting four captives, three men and one woman, as if they had fallen from these very ships. As I have said, they exhibited these four, who had been chained up for some days, with such a meeting finally assembling in our presence, as if these captives ought to be stoned. But when truth had prevailed, however, after much argument, the people who had exhibited the captives, in accordance with the prophecy (Jeremiah 2:26) were confounded as the thief is confounded when he is taken.
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