The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-21
LIGHTNING MARKS ON BODY.

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Notwithstanding knowledge Of electricity and our CON
trivances for controlling making purposes
are very few people the reckless who
impressed with of when witnessing
play OF natures forces during thunderstorm In there
thunder and lightning This hardly
lightning stroke by
accurate record of these deaths is kept there were
killed by lightning years 1854 1864
elusive COY killed oo8 being males 26o
Prussia where registration also is compulsory $40 persons
have killed by lightning 1869
1873 Statistics Of the United States also show deaths from
this
1t is surprising therefore, among primitive peoples
completely ignorant OF physical laws and with only udinensay
religion the lightning flashes and the peas of thunder thought
to be weapons in the hands Of angry gods
The Chinese still believe god of goddess of
lightning who punish when they
snted being consumed by lightning because una conduct
The round articles the goddess
which she flashes the lightning Her husband has the hammer and
hunderbolts The lady with the divided skirts wping the
from her face with her handkerchief the victims young wife and
the venerable dame with the long stick in her hand is the offended
parent The lightning appears be slow in doing work of
destruction but may be said explanation everything
China slowly
part longer people
struck dead by lightning punishment for oenes all
such phenomena be explained by the working of natural
Yet there still certain facts connected with hundersorms
which have been fully and satisfactorily explained and
them are the curious marks sometimes made by lightning upon the
human skin
century was published in which
the author collected accounts of "a which lightning had
made impressions upon the bodies of animals OF these
eight impressions of of of bird
of erosses carried about
the persons OF horseshoes nail metal comb
of number numea OF the words of and
one of the back of chair.
Times September 1866 of
boy who refuge during thunderstorm and
his body found "a perfect image OF the tree the hber
branches being Photographic
Without giving further examples there be question that
lightning does make marks the human skin resembling the
branches OF
explanation of this phenomenon? At
first supposed the lightning photographed the
the skin But occurred which struck
by lightning having these marks them nowhere near
vegetation description at the time OF the
the marks were suppostion
electricity passage through the body forced abnormal
of and cap
investigation showed this theory could
be held The final explanation far is that the mark made
by the lightning itself as it travels over the skin
If powerful electric machine and the current
OF electricity pass pole to the other the spark which
flashes between will take particular shape according to the strength
distance between the poles II the poles
be together the spark will be like straight line
When lightning strikes human being along the skin
meets with resistance and continually being detected from IT'S
course in the manner described and SO produces teke eeet
The marks last for time Of the skin more or less
burned euon of blood takes place beneath the skin
wherever the lightning has been.
the likeness of other objects
having imprinted upon skin, such and horse
shoes that explained this Thus in the sixteenth
century during divine Cathedral England two
three terrific c1aps of thunder heard which frightened the
orshppers much they the ground
continued for time without
parenty hurting any present but aeward found that
had been imprinted the bodies OF most OF those who
church The Bishop of the cathedral is responsible
Tor the accuracy OF this account George Naze one OF the
celebrated of the church fathers for his learning and p
the imprinted in this the bodies and clothing
rebuilding the Temple of Jerusalem
In Cuba the mark of horseshoe found ndelb impressed
the neck OF who struck dead by lightning
house of the windows of which nailed horseshoe
The example occurred vessel Zane
The number metal attached to the hxed OF the
ship between the bunk OF of the sailors The
lightning and the sailor who the bunk
time killed number
formed and perfectly the metal number
rigging sailors all agreed that the
he mans body struck by the acknowledgements