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The Multicolored Luminescent Hat Invasion of 1577

3/29/2015

33 Comments

 
I’d like to start today with a the truth about a “giant”: After reports circulated in gigantology circles this week that a “giant” skeleton up to twelve feet tall had been excavated at Varna in Bulgaria on March 17, other fringe types decided that the bones were those of a vampire. (Varna was the port used by the vampire in Dracula.) Others claimed that the fifth century bones actually were of a giant resident of Atlantis. Bulgarian archaeologists released actual facts about the skeleton yesterday, and it turns out that the skeleton is of a person who stood 5’4”. Archaeologist Valeri Yotov of the Varna Museum, who excavated the bones, said that the media and the public simply would not listen to reason as soon as they thought a “giant” had been unearthed beneath the ruins of Odessus. You can read the whole story here.
OK, let’s move on. This is kind of a strange case, but one that builds to an interesting climax. In Wonders in the Sky (2009), Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck translate a passage from the expanded 1594 edition of Pierre Boaistuau’s Histoires Prodigieuses, which I will tell you (because they don’t) comes from Book IV, chapter VII, p. 615. The authors assert that the event occurred “near Tubingen, Germany”:
Numerous black clouds appeared around the Sun, similar to those we see during major storms; shortly thereafter, other clouds of blood and fire emerged from the Sun, and yet others yellow as saffron. From these clouds came luminous effects like big, high and broad hats, and the earth itself appeared yellow, bloody, and covered with high and broad hats that took various colors such as red, blue, green, and most of them black. 
What makes this strange isn’t that the translation is wrong per se (it’s close, though awkward) but that it’s already been translated, and accurately, in Vallée’s earlier works. Here is how Vallée presented the same passage in Passport to Magonia and again in Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact, each time offering a more accurate translation, presumably his own:
About the sun many dark clouds appeared, such as we are wont to see during great storms: and soon afterward have come from the sun other clouds, all fiery and bloody, and others, yellow as saffron. Out of these clouds have come forth reverberations resembling large, tall and wide hats, and the earth showed itself yellow and bloody, and seemed to be covered with hats, tall and wide, which appeared in various colors such as red, blue, green, and most of them black.
Why the translation changed for the worse is anybody’s guess. Now when I say the older version is “more” accurate, that’s because there are a couple of issues. Aside from the odd choice of “reverberations” in the older version (a transliteration of the French reverberations), that translation is more or less correct. Here’s how I render the same lines, plus, for context, a bit of the opening of the passage:
In the town of Altorf in the country of Wurttemberg in Germany, one league away from the town of Tübingen, on the fifth day of last December, in the year 1577, at around seven o’clock in the morning, when the sun was beginning to rise, there was seen not its natural brightness and splendor…  All around the sun there appeared many black clouds, of the kind we are accustomed to see when there is a great storm, and soon after there came from the sun other clouds, all bloody and fiery, and others as yellow as saffron. From these clouds emerged diffusions of light resembling great high and wide hats, and all the earth showed itself to be yellow and bloody, and seemed to be covered (?) in hats, high and large. These hats appeared in many colors, such as red, blue, green, and for the most part black. 
The word I have translated as “diffusions of light” is the same one Vallée has given as “reverberations” and as “luminous effects.” The word is reverberations, which in the seventeenth century referred to reflections, refractions, scatterings, or echoes of sound or light.

I’m not very confident in the word translated as “covered,” which in the original is given as touuerte, a word I haven’t been able to find defined or even used elsewhere. I believe that Vallée has read it as couverte (“covered”), but I can’t find a version that uses a “t.” So, I decided to look at a different edition to see what the word is, but scanned 1598 copy on the Bibliothèque nationale de France website has the first half of the word lopped off!

The bigger issue, though, is that in none of the various iterations does Vallée explain that he has excerpted a few lines from several pages of discussion of wonders associated with this strange light show, all tied to various weird dark clouds that resembled soldiers. The French author says that two suns appeared in the sky, one red and one yellow, before the sky cleared and more weird clouds arrived. Given the tone and tenor of the work—whose original author was dead long before this passage was added to his book—it would seem to be a heavily exaggerated account of some atmospheric phenomena like sun dogs.

The answer probably lies in a 1578 edition of Schrockliche Newe Zeitung from which the French version derives, housed at the Department of Prints and Drawings of the Zentralbibliothek Zürich, in the Wickiana collection. Vallée and Aubeck note this themselves, but do not consult the original. The Swiss were kind enough to make it available online, and although it’s too small for me to see the German text, the illustration, made months after the fact by an artist who knew only the written account, speaks volumes!
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Yes, people rejoicing as hats fell from the sky! No, that’s not really what happened. It’s symbolic, as you’ll see. What’s doubly interesting is that the French volume illustrates the same scene, crudely and in reverse, but leaves out the falling hats. 
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Now, that’s not to say these hats aren’t in the original text. According to the Swiss library’s notes accompanying the online scan of the broadsheet, the original text states that the phenomenon involved the appearance of two suns, one red and one yellow (as seen in the 1578 illustration). Black clouds (represented as soldiers) appeared, and rainbow patches of light and shadow covered the ground, resembling hats. We should likely now be able to understand that we are most probably dealing with sun dogs and rainbow light beams resulting from the light passing through a moist and icy atmosphere. Pending a full translation of the German original, it would seem that this is the best explanation of what the French writer has seemingly translated, likely almost verbatim (hence the line about “last” December, 17 years later), and slapped into the book from which our author has excerpted only a couple of sentences.

33 Comments
Bob Jase
3/29/2015 02:41:49 am

Hats falling from the sky? Clearly celestial graduation ceremonies had ended.

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EP
3/29/2015 03:12:42 am

Space Oprah sez: "Everyone gets a hat!!!"

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Hypatia
3/29/2015 04:59:04 am

Could it have been ash from Billy Mitchell's eruption?
"Billy Mitchell is a volcano in the central part of the island of Bougainville, just northeast of the Bagana Volcano in Papua New Guinea. It is a small pyroclastic shield truncated by a 2 km wide caldera filled by a crater lake.
The last two major eruptions were in 1580 AD ± 20 years and about 1030 AD. They were among the largest Holocene eruptions in Papua New Guinea. Both were explosive eruptions with a Volcanic Explosivity Index of at least 5. The 1580 AD ± 20 years eruption produced pyroclastic flows and probably formed its caldera. The ignimbrite deposit from that eruption, which had a VEI of 6, extends 22 kilometres (14 mi) from the caldera to the coast, and its volume is around 10 cubic kilometres ." (wikipedia)

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Clint Knapp
3/29/2015 06:02:17 am

In Germany in the middle of winter? It seems unlikely to me. A quick glance at a trade wind map illustrates a general tendency of air to push east and toward the equator except around the poles. The ash fall would have had to travel northwest from Papua New Guinea and run up against prevailing northern-hemisphere currents and across all of southwest Asia just to reach Germany; where the Westerlies flow in the opposite direction.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Map_prevailing_winds_on_earth.png

It sounds like an ice storm brewing in the middle of the day, to me.

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Clint Knapp
3/29/2015 06:05:54 am

Correction: "of air to push WEST and toward the equator". Though even then, more appropriately only near the tropics. Temperate zones and poles tend eastward.

Clint Knapp
3/29/2015 06:07:21 am

(Weebly, still not working right)

Correction: I meant "west and toward the equator", though technically that still only covers the tropics, while polar and temperate zones trend eastward.

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Hypatia
3/29/2015 06:43:21 am

I'm no expert, but this was a BIG explosion over there.

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mhe
3/29/2015 07:02:16 am

The Great Comet of 1577?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Comet_of_1577

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Clint Knapp
3/29/2015 07:09:50 am

I'm not either, but compare it to Mt. St. Helens. Classified a 5 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index, its ash-fall was for the most part contained within the continental U.S.

Perhaps more pertinent to the Billy Mitchell eruption, though, might be the 1991 eruption of Pinatubo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Pinatubo

In roughly the same geographical region, and of the same VEI 6 classification, Pinatubo's ash cloud only reaches about as far as Vietnam and Cambodia; and it's closer to either than Papua New Guinea.

Of course, that's not to say there couldn't have been some effect. With any large volcanic eruption the real damage isn't the ash-fall itself so much as the impact to the global climate. It might very well be that the weather, strange enough for the time and place to be recorded in such a manner, could have been a side-effect of the changes to the atmosphere caused by the eruption itself. We'll never know, but it's an interesting avenue to wander down nevertheless.

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titus pullo
3/29/2015 09:07:08 am

Ok let me translate your theory for Ancient Aliens...General Billy Mitchell flying a experimental B-25 bomber carrying Thomas Townshend Brown's anti-gravity device for test purposes over New Guinea attempted to test the anti-gravity device sending his B-25 into the past but creating a gravity wave so powerful that it caused the volcano it was flying over to erupt in the new timeline of 1580. Mitchell was never seen again but the govt realized what he had done and named the volcano in his honor.

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mhe
3/29/2015 08:09:10 am

The "fifth day of last December, in the year 1577" would have been when the Great Comet was visible over Europe. Some described it as bright as the moon while Tycho Brahe described it as roughly the brightness of Venus. Throw in the right atmospheric conditions you could have had a pretty good show.

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Hypatia
3/29/2015 09:22:24 am

What turned my attention to volcanoes is that "all the earth showed itself to be yellow and bloody," not the clouds. Mount Pinatubo "injected more particulate into the stratosphere than any eruption since Krakatoa in 1883." Krakatoa threw dust and gases into the atmosphere, "Sulfate aerosols remained in the stratosphere, causing colorful sunrises and sunsets for several years."

But yes, what would a comet look like as seen next to the sun with big clouds in a winter morning sky? Can sundogs cast a yellow glow?

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Hypatia
3/29/2015 11:19:42 am

If it's the comet, the 'hats' could be double shadows of the clouds by the sun and by the comet.

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mhe
3/29/2015 11:53:29 am

Thats a good point.

It also seems that a comet tail can appear to "vibrate".

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Hypatia
3/29/2015 12:28:38 pm

Vibrate, is that so, like a flag in the wind?
That comet had a very long tail that 'spread across the sky,' and traveled near Venus.
So what if the Great Comet of 1577 was seen in transit across the sun from Germany that morning, with its long (warped --and vibrating--) tail facing the earth, its crystalline coma diffracting sunlight all over the place, created those dark clouds around the sun, orange glow and big hats thrown all around?

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EP
3/29/2015 11:59:05 am

5'4''? That's, like, just a particularly short giant if we go by Greg Little's standard. :)

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Only Me
3/29/2015 01:48:13 pm

If gigantologists wanted to be taken seriously, they would wisely learn from this example. All it took was speculation and sensationalism to turn modest human remains into a "giant". They should then look back through all their reports and see how many match up to the same circumstances.

If they wanted to be taken seriously.

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StrongStyleFiction
3/29/2015 01:04:24 pm

Okay, so it was a 5'4" vampire instead of a giant vampire. Honest mistake.

So that was what the aliens were after all along. Hats. It makes just as much sense as about anything else I've seen on Ancient Aliens.

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EP
3/29/2015 01:57:05 pm

the hats were just a polite way to try to tell Giorgio to do something about the hair.

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Clint Knapp
3/29/2015 04:47:12 pm

Well, obviously the vampire was a giant before the wall fell on him and compressed him to normal human size.

The real takeaway, however, might be a novel premise for a vampire's true weakness: construction accidents.

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Hypatia
3/29/2015 02:04:38 pm

Diffraction pattern through a crystal:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:X-ray_diffraction_pattern_3clpro.jpg
16th century German hat:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/546483736005547861/

But why would the author tell the story about the hats and not mention the comet?

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Jason Coalvito link
3/29/2015 02:15:29 pm

It wasn't the comet. The same German writer had a separate issue about the comet.

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Hypatia
3/29/2015 03:22:44 pm

The comet was observed from Nov 13 to Jan 26 by Brahe, the hats on Dec 5. If the sunlight passed through the dust from that tail and coma, it certainly could have created a glow on earth, and further be diffracted by the atmosphere in the morning sun, creating dark rings around the sun. I don't know about the hats, just speculating.

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mhe
3/29/2015 02:46:37 pm

I've got it! It was a hatnado:)

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Hypatia
3/29/2015 03:29:56 pm

A giants' hats-nado.

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Paul S.
3/29/2015 08:05:17 pm

I can't believe I studied early modern Europe and never learned about the great hatfall of 1577!

Seriously, it does sound like unusual atmospheric conditions creating multiple images of the sun in the sky, which in turn created unusual patterns of light and shadow on the ground and possibly in fog or mist as well.

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Hypatia
3/30/2015 03:52:26 am

Okay, okay, PaulS, I might get along with that, but only when considering that people had been spooked by the comet and started hallucinating...because "All around the sun there appeared many black clouds, of the kind we are accustomed to see when there is a great storm, and soon after there came from the sun other clouds, all bloody and fiery, and others as yellow as saffron," is a very abnormal atmospheric condition.

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Hypatia
3/30/2015 09:19:39 am

I found this good book on the comet available at google books:
"The Comet of 1577" by C.Doris Hellman, 1944
Pierre Boaistuau is not mentioned, but the last three chapters deal with contemporaries who exploited the comet, while the first chapters deal with observations and astronomy, Brahe,etc
Thank you Jason for getting me into this.
That comet's orbit did pass between the sun and the earth in a retrograde fashion. I'm munching on the book, short of finding Brahe's notebooks measurements, to see if on Dec 5, 7am, it was in transit across the sun as seen from Germany. Good luck, I know, I know. I'm not an astronomer, I've just been knitting socks all my life.

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Hypatia
3/31/2015 11:17:48 pm

My diagnosis is this. It could not have been the comet, it was not visible at 7am. However, it still could have been dust from the comet, left in space near Venus' orbit during its perihelion on Nov 10. It was a very big comet.
Or, yes, people were so spooked by the comet that was in the sky every evening, plus the lunar eclipse from September, that they became super-sensitive to anything unusual in the sky and aggrandized any phenomena. There was a deluge of astrological interpretations for that comet.

Nevertheless, there might have also been remnants of Billy Mitchell in the stratosphere, as well as drifts of smoke from the burnings at the stakes.

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Micah Ewers
4/1/2015 09:51:40 am

Wow. Thanks for the update.

And I was assuming he was maybe 6 ft 6, or pushing 7 feet.

5 Foot 4... ?!!! Well, maybe Like Joseph Stalin and Doctor Mario, he had an inflated ego. A Giant in spirit perhaps....

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Micah Ewers
4/1/2015 09:53:24 am

Darn... Another good story bites the dust.. Gonna have to scratch this report off my list...

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Micah Ewers
4/1/2015 10:00:21 am

If my own skeleton, six feet long were found in an ancient Russian Burial mound... I think the press might add 7 feet to my stature... call me 13 feet even.

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V
4/2/2015 12:47:16 pm

I've actually seen a phenomenon, with my own eyes, that closely matches this description. It was a very early morning in the winter when I was in my teens. We were camping somewhere, but I can't say where other than that it was somewhere on the East Coast of the United States, and probably somewhere between Pennsylvania and Maine. (We did a lot of travelling when I was a kid, mostly in the northern Midatlantic and New England areas.) It had snowed the night before, the really dry, powdery stuff, and the wind was blowing briskly but not, like, gale-force or anything. Just enough that there was a bit of haze in the air from the powder. We were up because we thought there was going to be a storm and we wanted to see if there would be the fairly rare thundersnow phenomenon. As the sun cleared the horizon, there was a short period, I don't know how long but not more than half an hour, where you could see a double image of the sun of a somewhat more orangey-red color overlapping the yellow sun--you couldn't see it for long, of course, but it was there, very faintly. They sky had storm clouds, very black, and also, at probably a lower altitude since we could see them against the black clouds, fluffy white ones, fairly small, that on reflection could possibly resemble the kinds of hats available in the late 1500s. (Especially flatcaps, or what many people today call "muffin hats." http://www.osfcostumerentals.org/stock/Accessories/Hats/Men's%20Hats/Medieval%20-%20Renaissance%20Hats/slides/11001376%20Hat%20Elizabethan%20Flat%20Cap%20red%20wool%20brown%20plume%20H22.5.JPG) As the sun came up, as with usual dawns, those clouds turned all kinds of colors, and the whole area seemed saturated by golden-orange light. Around anything with snow on it, there was a halo of some color or another--obviously from the diffraction of light, but I could see people thinking it looked like hats. The shadows also got very dark, probably from the visual contrast rather than an actual change in color.

It was a really beautiful sunrise, to me, with a sort of fairyland, mystical quality, but not in the least bit actually supernatural. It was purely a visual oddity, resulting from sheer coincidence of atmospheric conditions.

We never got to see any thundersnow that day, though. That had to wait for a different day.

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