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THE THUNDERWEAPON
Rerso, district of Holbaek. [THORKILD Gravlund, I gamle
Essinge By (1905), pp. 13, 14.]
9. An old woman in western Sealand kept a big thunder-
stone (i.e. a flint wedge) to the day of her death, believing
that as long as it was in the house neither lightning nor any
other disaster could befall it. [J. KAMP, Folkeminder, p. 407,
No. 1345.]
10. When the horses are troubled by the nightmare you
take a thunderstone, i.e. a flint axe or flint wedge, and hang
it under the roof over the horses; then the nightmare dare
not touch them. Western Sealand. [J. Kamp, Folkeminder,
p. 188, No. 68.]
11. In August, 1694, Mr P. Syv saw Baron Juel’s soldiers
open two barrows on Karise field (district of Praesto)...In the
tomb were shattered urns, a great number of so-called thunder-
stones (i.e. flint axes and flint knives), and some ordinary human
bones. [Worsaae, Annaler for nord. OldkyndigJied, 1844-5,
p. 203, from Samlinger til den danske Historic, I. 2, p. 117.]
12. In October, 1908, a hollow-ground flint axe was sent
to the National Museum, “ bought of Η. P. in Gammelby
(district of Praestb), who found it fixed under the roof of the
house he had bought of the cottager C. L.”
13. The peasants generally fix the stone wedges (i.e. the
flint axes) under the ceiling and believe that they act as a
protection against lightning. Svaerdborg parish, district of
Praesto. [H. Duncan, Beretning om et i en hedensk Gravhoj
paa Lundtofte Mark nylig fundet Skelet (Copenhagen, 1840),
p. 14.]
14. In 1868 I called on an elderly woman living near
Kulsbjaergene, wishing to buy a polished flint axe which I
knew she had found. But it was impossible for me to get it.
I explained to her that it was a tool from the stone age. The
woman told me I wouldn’t make her believe that. No, it was
a thunderstone, and when they had one in the house the
thunder would not strike it. I offered the woman two smaller
stones of a similar kind, and still proposed to pay the same
for her thunderstone as I had offered her before. To this the
THE THUNDERWEAPON
Rerso, district of Holbaek. [THORKILD Gravlund, I gamle
Essinge By (1905), pp. 13, 14.]
9. An old woman in western Sealand kept a big thunder-
stone (i.e. a flint wedge) to the day of her death, believing
that as long as it was in the house neither lightning nor any
other disaster could befall it. [J. KAMP, Folkeminder, p. 407,
No. 1345.]
10. When the horses are troubled by the nightmare you
take a thunderstone, i.e. a flint axe or flint wedge, and hang
it under the roof over the horses; then the nightmare dare
not touch them. Western Sealand. [J. Kamp, Folkeminder,
p. 188, No. 68.]
11. In August, 1694, Mr P. Syv saw Baron Juel’s soldiers
open two barrows on Karise field (district of Praesto)...In the
tomb were shattered urns, a great number of so-called thunder-
stones (i.e. flint axes and flint knives), and some ordinary human
bones. [Worsaae, Annaler for nord. OldkyndigJied, 1844-5,
p. 203, from Samlinger til den danske Historic, I. 2, p. 117.]
12. In October, 1908, a hollow-ground flint axe was sent
to the National Museum, “ bought of Η. P. in Gammelby
(district of Praestb), who found it fixed under the roof of the
house he had bought of the cottager C. L.”
13. The peasants generally fix the stone wedges (i.e. the
flint axes) under the ceiling and believe that they act as a
protection against lightning. Svaerdborg parish, district of
Praesto. [H. Duncan, Beretning om et i en hedensk Gravhoj
paa Lundtofte Mark nylig fundet Skelet (Copenhagen, 1840),
p. 14.]
14. In 1868 I called on an elderly woman living near
Kulsbjaergene, wishing to buy a polished flint axe which I
knew she had found. But it was impossible for me to get it.
I explained to her that it was a tool from the stone age. The
woman told me I wouldn’t make her believe that. No, it was
a thunderstone, and when they had one in the house the
thunder would not strike it. I offered the woman two smaller
stones of a similar kind, and still proposed to pay the same
for her thunderstone as I had offered her before. To this the