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Thunder and Lightening

TheCatWoman

I love a good storm, but I know many people are terrified, there are so many folk beliefs about them. The ones I've heard are:, turning mirrors to face the wall, (why I dont' know)? Opening the front and back doors so as any energy balls can exit, turning off and unplugging anything electric, especially the tv, this I can understand as surge protectors wern't as good or as common as now and TV arials were often the highest point in a house. My friends Gran used to hide in the cupboard under the stairs until it was allover as she was so scared.

My Gran told my Dad it was just God moving his furniture about, I guess that was to stop him being scared.

Has anyone else ever seen ball lightening? It's a weird thing to see, a bright ball flying across the sky from one cloud to another, quite distinct from normal sheet lightening and it explodes with a hell of a bang like an explosion. It was only scientifucally confirmed as being real in the late !980's, so I guess some scientist actually saw it and couldn't say ever body who had seen it was a superstitious liar. It's thought that it accounts for many dragon stories, as it's often firey in colour rather than blue/white, it was also thought to be an omen of change for centuries.

I've seen forked lightening coming in across the sea, the storm looked like it was walking. No wonder there are so many legends, stories and superstitions about storms.

Any one got any more folk beliefs to add?

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  • TheCatWoman said:
    Any one got any more folk beliefs to add?

    I'm not much for beliefs but prefer hard facts.

    There is a university here in Sao Paulo that one of the autistic students I mentored has gone to who are studying ball lightening amongst other high energy studies and I get to hear a few ridbits of the research.

    The military control the info released from the research rather dissapointingly but there are some interesting experiments being performed on how it passes through physical barriers. I guess you can see why the military may be interessted in passing high energy sources through solid walls / armoured vehicles etc.

    They do now understand a lot more about the laws that govern the event but being able to reliably reproduce them is trickier due to the massive amounts of energy required.

    I do love a good thunderstorm (we get them frequently) and when one has a lot of electrical discharge it makes you realise how insignificant we are in the face of nature.

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  • TheCatWoman said:
    Any one got any more folk beliefs to add?

    I'm not much for beliefs but prefer hard facts.

    There is a university here in Sao Paulo that one of the autistic students I mentored has gone to who are studying ball lightening amongst other high energy studies and I get to hear a few ridbits of the research.

    The military control the info released from the research rather dissapointingly but there are some interesting experiments being performed on how it passes through physical barriers. I guess you can see why the military may be interessted in passing high energy sources through solid walls / armoured vehicles etc.

    They do now understand a lot more about the laws that govern the event but being able to reliably reproduce them is trickier due to the massive amounts of energy required.

    I do love a good thunderstorm (we get them frequently) and when one has a lot of electrical discharge it makes you realise how insignificant we are in the face of nature.

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