THE PELICAN LOOKS FOR PHYSICAL EVIDENCE

The Pelican is pleased to note that he has received an Honourable Mention in Tim Printy's excellent SUNlite newsletter: 
http://home.comcast.net/~tprinty/UFO/SUNlite1_4.pdf, 
which derives its inspiration from the Skeptics UFO Newsletter, edited by the late, lamented, kindly old Uncle Phil. This mention consists of brief remarks about The Pelican's discussion of Richard Doty in his previous contribution to this blog. These remarks are indicative of the strange lack of curiosity concerning Doty's activities among American ufologists, and your feathered friend hopes to treat this matter at greater length in one of his future columns.

ENCOUNTERS WITH THE OLD HAG

Louis Proud. Dark Intrusions; An Investigation into the Paranormal Nature of Sleep Paralysis Experiences. Anomalist Books, 2009.

One of the most important books about ufology, or indeed any kind of visionary experience, is David Hufford’s The Terror That Comes in the Night. Peter Rogerson reviewed it in Magonia when it was first published, and you can read his review HERE. I suggest you click and read it, then come back here.

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WHAT IS A 'BUFORA'?

I was looking through a catalogue of twentieth-century Norwegian piano music (the way you do) when I came across an interesting short piece by Geirr Tveitt (b. 1909, Bergen; d. 1981) called 'Huldre - bufora'. Well as we all know, and Wikipedia is always ready to remind us, in Scandinavian folklore a huldre is a stunningly beautiful, sometimes naked woman with long hair; though from behind she is hollow like an old tree trunk, and has an animal's tail.
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MAGONIA 17, OCTOBER 1984

One feature of the old print version of Magonia that I quite liked doing was the ‘25 Years Ago’ piece. One reason was that it was always useful for filling in the odd half page that invariably seemed to be left over once I’d got everything else laid out for the printers. The other, rather better, reason was that it gave a glimpse of how attitudes to UFOs and ufology had changed in the intervening quarter-century. Or more usually how little had changed. So I thought I’d start giving it a go here on the blog.
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