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Fortean Times #33 (Autumn 1980)

• Cover price: 95p $2.50
• 56 pages (60 w/covers)
• Cover art by William Rankin

UFO Abduction - Symbols & Psychology; Enfield Polt p10; New Nessie Photos p28

Articles

• 04-5,11 Stay, you Imperfect Speakers by Guy L Playfair
• 06-10 Abducted by an Archetype by Hilary Evans
  • The Problem
  • What would Charles Fort have done?
  • A clue
  • Four kinds of report
  • The significance of myth
  • Where reality starts and ends
  • Paradox to the rescue!
  • Conclusion
• 10 Ask Aristotle by Paul Sieveking
• 12-17 Gateways to Mystery, pt 3 by David Fideler & Bob Tarte
  • Some Archetypal Dminsions of the UFO Mythos
  • Perception, Projection, and the Paranormal
  • The Evolution of the Flying Saucer
  • A Mythopoeic Exit or Flying Saucer Symbolism Under-The-Eye
  • Acknowledgements: Jerry Clark, Loren Coleman, Anthony Nugent, Allen H. Greenfield and the entire FT staff.
• 18-19 Man Bites Man! by Paul Sieveking
  • Chicken Girls
  • Drought and Death
  • Fossil Footprints
  • Double Takes
  • Man Bites Man

Comix

• 11 Telly Kinex - JH Szostek
• 21 Phenomenomix - Hunt Emerson
• 53 Facts You Might Forget - Pokkettz

Columns

• 38 On the Trail by Loren Coleman
  • On the Trail of Giant Snakes
    • The Peninsula Python
    • Other American Monster Serpents
• 40 Tales From the Yellow Emporium by Steve Moore
  • Two Heads are Better?
  • Scrambled Eggs
  • Small Problems
  • Horny Dilemma
  • They Comes From Where?!
  • Credits: Chris J Holtzhausen, Mark A Hall, Colin Hohnson, Sam, Dwight Whalen, Heathcote Williams
• 42 Enigma Variations: Tiny Feats by Nigel Watson

Notes

• 22-27 Illnesses - Mass Hysteria by RJMR
  • The Hollinwell Incident
  • The Theories
  • Aftermath
  • Mass Hysteria
  • Reactions
  • Last Thoughts
  • Credits: Janet & Colin Bord, Keith Chapman, J Chetwynd, Peter Christie, Mark A Hall, Nick Malloret, Valerie Martin, Sam, PR Thomas, Andy Townsend, Ion Will
  • Other Relateable Incidents
  • Credits: Valerie Martin, Sam, PR Thomas, Andy Townsend, UFO Newsclipping Service, Ion Will, Mr X's Res Bureaux Bulletin
• 27,30-32 Strange Encounters - More C3Ks by PRAdeGS
  • Aliens in Russia
    • Filaments in the Firmament
    • Farmer Wolsky and the Green Men
    • The Abducted Vet and the Frayed Briefcase
    • Dwarf Aliens visit East Prussia
  • The Alien Formula for Giant Vegetables (Jose Carmen Garcia)
  • Strange Truck Journey in Virginia (Harry Turner)
  • Stood Up by the Jovians (Edilicio Barbosa)
  • Credits: Loren Coleman, Mark A Hall, David MacAdam, Sam, Ted Schultz, Dwight Whalen, Ion Will
• 28-29 Images - Simulacra by RJMR
  • The Crack of Doom
  • Men on the Moon
  • Credits: Chris J Holtzhausen, Sam, Nigel Watson
• 32-36 Trends - Lumps in our Data
  • Arrowing Experiences by RJMR - Michael Hoffman, Dwight Whalen, Ion Will
  • Grave Humour by PRAdeGS & RJMR - Mark A Hall, Chris J Holtzhausen, Peter Hope-Evans, Valerie Martin, Nigel Pennick, Ion Will
  • St Helens Revisited by RJMR - Sam, Paul Screeton
  • Religion Watch by RJMR - J Chetwynd, Mike Crowley, Mark A Hall, Peter James, Michael Hoffman, Peter Hope-Evans, Sam, Joe Swatek, R Watson, Dwight Whalen, Ion Will
    • Pious Fraud
    • Sacrilege I: Violence in the church
    • Sacrilege II: Blasphemy, Desecration etc.
    • Leaders and the Lost
• 36-38 Unidentified - Nessie Hunter + Pix by RJMR
  • Introducing Jeoff Watson
  • Loch Ness 3 Sept 1978
  • Falmouth Bay
  • Future Plans

Usual Stuff

• 01 Editorial by Bob Rickard
• 20 News
  • Book News
  • New Group - The New Fortean Society of New York
  • Meetings & Lectures
• 54-55 Classified Exchange
• 56 Truss Fund (donations) - Larry Arnold, Mike Grayson, Robyn Gurney, Nick Malloret, SN Morgan, Don Robins, Leslie Shepard
• 56 Small Ads
• 56 Next Issue: Ice falls, beached whales, inept crimes + more unofficial wildlife + monsters
• 56 Help!
• 57 Subscription info

Letters

• 02 Whale Tales (Whale Tumor/Urban Legend stories) - Colin Bord
• 02 Oahspe Tulpoids - Mrs Phyllis Hall
• 03 Time Slips? - Judith Gee
• 03 Nymph Away! - Alf Debnam
• 03 Bigbird Notes - Joseph Trainor
• 03 Fortean Art - Peter Horton
• 56 More on Manna - Nigel Pennick
• 56 Landscape Zoo - Graham McEwan

Reviews

• 44-47 Hardbacks
  • Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World by Simon Welfare & John Fairley - RJMR
  • Photographs of the Unknown by Bob Rickard & Richard Kelly - Janet Bord
  • The Dark Gods by Anthony Roberts & Geoff Gilbertson - Michael Anthony Hoffman
• 47-52 Paperbacks
  • The UFO Handbook: A Guide to Investigating, Evaluating, and Reporting UFO Sightings by Allan Hendry - Rob Hollis Miller
  • The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav - Mike Crowley
  • Madoc: The Making of a Myth - The legend of the Welsh discovery of America by Gwyn A Williams - Paul Begg
  • The Wise Wound by P Shuttle & P Redgrove - RJMR
  • The Life of Milarepa translated by LP Lhalungpa - Mike Crowley
  • The Mute Strategy by Dave DeWitt - Michael Anthony Hoffman
  • Nature Detective by Hugh Falkus - RJMR
  • Schrodinger's Cat by Robert Anthony Wilson - David Sutton
  • Beyond Death by Stanislav and Christina Grof - RJMR
  • Time by Marie-Louise von Franz - RJMR
  • Zen by Anne Bancroft - RJMR
  • Worthwhile Paperback Editions
  • Subdue the Earth by Ralph Franklin Walworth
  • Oedipus and Akhnaton by Velikovsky
  • Harmonic 33 by Bruce Cathie
  • The True History of the Elephant Man by Michael Howell and Peter Ford
  • The New Soviet Psychic Discoveries by Henry Gris and William Dick
  • Voices in My Ear by Doris Stokes
  • Ghosts of Wales by Peter Underwood
  • The Necronomicon by Colin Wilson, Robert Turner, David Langford, edited by George Hay
• 52 Booklets
  • Stars, and Rumours of Stars by Kevin and Sue McClure - RJMR
  • Rosicrucian Thoughts on the Ever-Burning Lamps of the Ancients by W Wynn Westcott - RJMR
  • Tales of the Hexham Heads by Paul Screeton - RJMR
  • Pennick's Endsville Pagan Almanack by Nigel Pennick - RJMR
  • Tunnels Under London by Nigel Pennick - RJMR

Masthead

• Editor - Robert JM Rickard
• Editorial Assistants - Steve Moore and Paul Sieveking
• Contributing Editor - David Fideler
• Art Director - Richard Adams
• Comix Editor and section heading artwork - Hunt Emerson

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