Thursday, July 7, 2016

Fear the Fae

In 1888 the Swedish city of Sundsvall nearly burned to the ground.  The conventional explanation is that the blaze started thanks to sparks from a passing steamer.  The truth is far more disturbing.  The gifted Jacob Petersson brings us the actual culprit, demonstrating once again that the fae are a scourge upon humanity.



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3 comments:

  1. UnknownJuly 7, 2016 at 5:50 AM

    Very cool. Love the detail.

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  2. CoastConFanJuly 7, 2016 at 9:39 AM

    It’s no accident this happened in Sweden, which happened to be the prime manufacturer of matches in the mid to late 19th century, starting in 1836. At one point, there were over a hundred companies manufacturing matches and shipping their product all over the world. So you see it was inevitable that the creatures would get their hands on matches and wreak havoc. I notice she has a box of the famous Three Stars Brand. So what’s Swedish for “Burn, baby, burn”?*

    See also http://www.swedishmatchindustries.com/en/Products/Swedish-matches/History-of-matches/

    History of matches http://museumofeverydaylife.org/exhibitions-collections/current-exhibitions/history-of-the-match and http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmatch.htm

    *later attributed to H. Rap Brown, but we know that to be erroneous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_Baby_Burn

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  3. Dr. ThedaJuly 7, 2016 at 12:49 PM

    Cool post, good Sir...

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