Haggopian and Other Stories

(Neolithic A’byy of the Fragments and Pnakotic Mss???) Reference Stukeley’s book, A Temple to the British Druids, incredible…Druids, indeed… But Stukeley nearly had it when he said Snake Worship! Worms, more like it!

COUNCIL OF NANTES.

(9th century) The council didn’t know what they were doing when they said: “Let the stones also which, deceived by the derision of the demons, they worship amid ruins and in wooded places, where they both make their vows and bestow their offerings, be dug up from the very foundations, and let them be cast into such places as never will their devotees be able to find them again…” I’ve read that paragraph so many times that it’s become imprinted upon my mind! God only knows what happened to the poor devils who tried to carry out the Council’s orders…

DESTRUCTION OF GREAT STONES.

In the 13th and 14th centuries the Church also attempted the removal of certain stones from Avebury because of local superstitions which caused the country folk to take part in heathen worship and witchcraft around them! In fact some of the stones were destroyed—by fire and douching—”because of the devices upon them.”

INCIDENT.

1920–25. Why was a big effort made to bury one of the great stones? An earth-tremor caused the stone to slip, trapping a workman. No effort appears to have been made to free him… The “accident” happened at dusk and two other men died of fright! Why did other diggers flee the scene? And what was the titanic thing which one of them saw wriggling away into the ground? Allegedly the thing left monstrous smell behind it… By their SMELL shall ye know them… Was it a member of another nest of the timeless ghouls?

THE OBELISK.

Why was Stukeley’s huge obelisk broken up? The pieces were buried in the early 18th century but in 1833 Henry Browne found burnt sacrifices at the site… And nearby, at Silbury Hill… My God! That devil-mound! There are some things, even amidst these horrors, which don’t bear thinking of—and while I’ve still got my sanity Silbury Hill better remain one of them!

AMERICA: INNSMOUTH.

1928. What actually happened and why did the Federal government drop depth charges off Devil Reef in the Atlantic coast just out of Innsmouth? Why were half Innsmouth’s citizens banished? What was their connection with Polynesia and what also lies buried in the lands beneath the sea?

WIND WALKER.

(Death-Walker, Ithaqua, Wendigo etc….) yet another horror—though of a different type! And such evidence! Alleged human sacrifices in Manitoba. Unbelievable circumstances surrounding Norris Case! Spencer of Quebec University literally affirmed the validity of the case…And at…

But that is as far as the notes go and when I first read them I was glad that such was the case. It was quickly becoming all too apparent that my uncle was far from well and still not quite right in his mind. Of course, there was always the chance that he had written those notes before his seeming improvement, in which case his plight was not necessarily as bad as it appeared.