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Fabulous Tales - a Cabinet of Curiosities

Fabulous Tales - a Cabinet of Curiosities. (Choose your answers.)

1. Unexplained creature from icy regions.

Yeti. 1. Mountain Gorilla.

Bigfoot. 2. Large Black Bear.

Alma. 3. Abominable Snowman.

2. Strange falls from the sky.

Frogs and fish. 1. Caught up in a whirlwind.

Falling ice. 2. Passing aircraft.

Seeds. 3. Sucked up in a vortex.

3. The Devil's footprints.

1. Vicar announced from pulpit escaped kangaroo.

2. Donkeys or ponies with broken shoes.

3. Hoax on a snowy night.

4. Vitrified forts in Scotland.

1. Stones thrown up by extinct volcanoes.

2. Rocks melted by ray guns of visiting astronauts.

3. Deliberately melted with intense firing of wood.

5. Monsters of the deep.

The Kraken. 1. Exaggerated reports of large squid.

2. Invertebrate whale.

3. Shark, seal, or marine reptile.

6. Circles and standing stones.

Stonehenge. 1. Precisely built to coincide with Midsummer.

Roll Rights. 2. Religious rituals.

Orkney Ring. 3. Alignments to sun, moon and stars. Key dates.

7. Loch Ness Monster.

Nessie. 1. Seal or giant eel.

Ogopogo. (Canada) 2. Wash from passing ships.

Champ. (USA) 3. Prehistoric monster.

(Champion of Champs). 4. Hoax.

8. Figures in a landscape.

White horses. 1. Rev. told outline marked out with flags.

Cerne Giant. 2. Fertility.

Long Man of Wilmington 3. Roman statue of Hercules.

9. Star of Bethlehem - the Christmas Star.

Triple Conjunction.1. Herod did not see third conjunction.

Matthew's Gospel 2. About right. Visible in right account. part of sky.

A comet, or exploding nova. 3. Herod not used to studying sky

10. Mysterious mounds.

Silbury Hill, 1. No treasure found.

Old London to Bath Road.

Serpent mound of Ohio, USA 2. Lair of Giant Spiders.

Earth Mounds inWales 3. Ancient strange customs.

Rosemary Goulding

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